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A typical shift

You take over a desk mid-flow and get a handover from the controller going home: what is out there, what is broken, what is running late. Then eight or twelve hours of screens showing your territory, radio calls from crews, track authorities issued and cancelled, maintenance crews asking for windows to work in. A signal fails, a freight train blocks a crossing, a crew is about to run out of legal hours and you have to arrange a relief. Most of it is routine. The parts that are not are the reason the job is paid what it is paid.