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When is the driver required to service a locomotive?
At some country locations the maintenance staff are not rostered on for all shifts, and the driver will be required to conduct the refuelling and servicing duties.
What are the locomotive service requirements?
- check fault book
- Refuel loco
- Check brake blocks
- Check and if necessary adjust brake piston travels
- Drain liquids from main res and control air reservoir
- Check under loco for leaks or unsafe features
- Check headstock – flexible hose couplings and cables
- Check and if necessary top up engine cooling system water
- Check and if necessary top up engine lube oil system
- Check and if necessary top the engine Governor oil
- Check and if necessary top up the air compressor lube oil
- Check and if necessary fill sanders
- Check and if necessary fill HEP lube oil and cooling system
- Check speed chart serviceability
- Test whistle operation
- Test lighting
- N class – check the fault module display tell-tale lights-spot lights on the annunciation panel
What is the procedure to service a locomotive?
- fuelling
- brake blocks
- Check and adjust loco brakes:
- N class - 50mm to 150mm
- Y class - 100mm to 110mm
- cooling system
- engine lube oil system - NOTE: Oil level will fall approximately 75mm when the engine is restarted
- governor oil
- head end power oil and coolant
- annunciation module panel (N class)
- sanders
- speed chart
Test whistle and lights
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