2008 Q6 INTRO OF NOVEL EQUIPMENT

[PJW]

Brisbane study group also had a go at Q6

Thanks

Hitesh, Johnson and Laura

Re Q6. This will have certain commonality with the 2005 question ;

Please find my embedded comments for Q6.
It was OK-ish, so I think it would have passed but with not much to spare.
Need to remember that this is a module 1 question; your treatment of the advanatages and disadvantages of the LED signal read too much as if module 5. Needed to interpret this portion of the question within the context of the question as a whole and therefore concentrate on risks. You could have made the point that fewer maintenance visits means less exposure of maintenance staff to dangers trackside- less chance of being run over, less chance getting hit by object falling from train, less chance of falling from signal ladder, less chance of slip / trip/ fall when accessing site.....Hence it is not just the basic content but also how you present it!
Similarly the actual risks in the last part of your answer were often somewhat hidden and sometimes just inferred