Trains

[bootsie82]

Has anyone had some success useing close call on first great western trains to london and what should I look under to find freqs for this bit of fun.

Cheers.

[Andrew]

Cab to signal boxes are round about 196 - 198 mHz, the signal boxes to cabs round about 204 - 206. There are a specific set of channels for trains. I've had a few hits of Strathclyde's trains, which use cab secure radio, up about 448 - 455 mHz.

The complete list from a file of mine, the first two digits are the bank number from the scanner they were originally in.

00 454.84375 Cab Secure Radio Ch 1 Control
01 448.34375 CSR Ch 1 Cab
02 454.86875 CSR Ch 3 Control (Channel 2 is 454.8563, and it?s data only)
03 448.36875 CSR Ch 3 Cab
04 454.88125 CSR Ch 4 Control
05 448.38125 CSR Ch 4 Cab
06 454.89375 CSR Ch 5 Control
07 448.39375 CSR Ch 5 Cab
08 454.90625 CSR Ch 6 Control
09 448.40625 CSR Ch 6 Cab
10 454.91875 CSR Ch 7 Control
11 448.41875 CSR Ch 7 Cab
12 454.93125 CSR Ch 8 Control
13 448.43125 CSR Ch 8 Cab
14 454.94375 CSR Ch 9 Control
15 448.44375 CSR Ch 9 Cab
16 454 .95625 CSR Ch 10 Control
17 448.45625 CSR Ch 10 Cab
18 454.96875 CSR Ch 11 Control
19 448.46875 CSR Ch 11 Cab
20 454.98125 CSR Ch 12 Control
21 448.48125 CSR Ch 12 Cab
22 455.5125 CSR Ch 13 Control
23 449.0125 CSR Ch 13 Cab
24 455.5875 CSR Ch 14 Control
25 449.0875 CSR Ch 14 Cab
26 455.6625 CSR Ch 15 Control
27 449.1625 CSR Ch 15 Cab
28 455.6875 CSR Ch 16 Control
29 449.175 CSR Ch 16 Cab
30 455.6875 CSR Ch 17 Control
31 449.1875 CSR Ch 17 Cab
32 455.5375 CSR Ch 18 Control
33 449.0375 CSR Ch 18 Cab
34 455.625 CSR Ch 19 Control (Also Prestwick Airport Channel 1 Tower Rebroadcasts)
35 449.025 CSR Ch 19 Cab
36 449.2875 EWS
37 204.850 Channel 401T
38 204.900 402T inc Newcastle - Durham
39 204.950 403T
40 205.000 404T
41 205.050 405T Roadhaul 23
42 205.100 406T inc Inverness
43 205.150 407T inc. Richmond North Yorkshire
44 205.200 408T
45 205.250 409T
46 205.300 410T
47 205.350 411T
48 205.400 412T
49 205.600 413T
50 205.650 414T
51 205.675 EWS Channel 400, NRN Channel 415T
52 205.700 416T
53 205.725 417T
54 205.750 418T inc Cleveland, WCML Carlisle - Gretna
55 205.800 419T
56 205.8375 420T
57 205.850 421T inc Cleveland / County Durham
58 205.900 422T inc Cleveland / County Durham
59 205.950 423T
60 206.000 424T
61 206.100 425T
62 206.150 426T inc Fort William ? Helensburgh Upper
63 206.250 427T
64 206.300 428T inc Darlington / Middlesbrough


The ones with place names are places I've heard them in use.

[bootsie82]

Thank you Andrew...yer a gem !!!!!!!!!!.

Martin.

[Andrew]

No bother. I use trains a lot and like to be nosey at times when on board. I listen in on the platform frequencies, especially at Glasgow Central or Queen Street etc if I'm there before the local trains start boarding. They always announce which platform trains are going from over the radio about a minute or two before it comes up on the departure board, so when it's broadcast I can make my way to it before the rest of the crowd, and my chances of getting a seat are increased!

Also, the cab secure radio frequencies (448-455) are only used by Strathclyde's 'Ayrline' trains, I don't think the Glasgow suburban trains use them, also South West Trains and Misery, sorry, MerseyRail.

[sw85uk]

Make the most of listening to trains people, tetra airwave is on it's way into the trains companies. It's only some information I pulled up on the web when reading about the airwave service, just said in a small article that two train networks in London had signed upto to tetra. That's whats disappointing, tetra is going to finish the hobby of scanning off all together, i thought it was just the emergency servies but I think everyone who communicates via radio is going to join airwave, the diease of radio scanning due to its encryption which will never be cracked as its fort knox.

[jamesascot]

hi
did you have any luck in finding the freqs for first great western?
if you did can u please send me a copy

thanks
james

[Andrew]

Its GSM as in mobile phone like comms. they will be using, not Airwave, which is an o2 product.