Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited · RQF Level 2
EAL Level 2 Certificate In Railway Engineering Overhead Line Construction
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits29
- Guided learning250 hours
- Units in this qualification12
Awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Contribute to Safe Working Practices when Working in the Railway Track EnvironmentReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of working safely in the railway track environment
- Understand the importance of a secure railway track working environment
- Understand the railway track environment
- Follow correct procedures for track and personal safety
- Identify and deal with hazards in the railway environment
Prepare for Work in the Rail Engineering EnvironmentReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Complete personal preparation for working in rail engineering
- Prepare for work
Understand the Overhead Line Construction ProcessReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of safe access to the Overhead Line Construction site
- Know the importance of preparing for Overhead Line Construction activities
- Know the component parts and equipment used in Overhead Line Construction
- Understand Overhead Line Construction activities
Undertake Overhead Line Earthing and Bonding Installation ActivitiesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the overhead line earthing and bonding installation requirements
- Undertake earthing and bonding activities on the railway track infrastructure
- Effectively take part in site clearance
Undertake Overhead Line Main Steelwork Installation ActivitiesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the overhead line main steelwork installation requirements
- Undertake overhead line main steelwork installation activities on the railway track infrastructure
- Effectively take part in site clearance
Undertake Overhead Line Sectioning, Insulation, Registration and In-span Component Installation ActivitiesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the overhead line Sectioning, Insulation, Registration and In-span Component installation requirements
- Undertake Overhead Line Equipment wiring activities on the railway track infrastructure
- Effectively take part in site clearance
Undertake Overhead Line Small Part Steelwork Installation ActivitiesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the overhead line small part steelwork installation requirements
- Undertake Overhead Line Equipment small part steel work installation activities on the railway track infrastructure
- Effectively take part in site clearance
Undertake Overhead Line Wiring Installation ActivitiesReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the overhead line wiring installation requirements
- Undertake Overhead Line Equipment wiring activities on the railway track infrastructure
- Effectively take part in site clearance
Working Safely in the Track Side Environment - Fire Safety in the WorkplaceReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the hazards and risks associated with fire in the workplace
- Understand the development and behaviour of fire
- Follow fire safety procedures
- Know the correct methods of extinguishing fire
- Know the appropriate extinguishing materials
- Know the fire safety notices and signs
Working Safely in the Track Side Environment – Emergency First AidReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of the first aid responder
- Assess an emergency situation and act appropriately
- Provide first aid for an unresponsive casualty
- Recognise the requirements for Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation and administer accordingly
- Recognise when a person is choking and administer first aid accordingly
- Administer first aid to a casualty who is wounded and bleeding
- Recognise a casualty who is suffering from shock and manage accordingly
- Recognise a casualty who is suffering from electrical shock and man
Working Safely in the Track Side Environment – Safe Manual Handling of ObjectsReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the reasons for safe manual handling
- Manage the risks involved in manual handling
- Carry out safe manual handling techniques
Working Safely in the Track Side Environment – Working Safely at HeightsReal unit · Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relevant legislation, guidance and organisation requirements for working safely at height
- Demonstrate safe working at height
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Access Overhead Line Equipment Construction Sites
- Contribute to health and safety in the Tram and Tramway environment
- Implement protection arrangements in the rail industry
- Install Overhead Line Equipment Sectioning, Insulation, Registration and In-span Components
- Install Overhead Line Equipment Small Part Steelwork
- Install overhead line equipment main steelwork
- Install overhead line equipment wiring
- Operate under a safe system of work in the Tram and Tramway environment
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for EAL Level 2 Certificate In Railway Engineering Overhead Line Construction
12 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited.
- Contribute to Safe Working Practices when Working in the Railway Track Environment
- Prepare for Work in the Rail Engineering Environment
- Understand the Overhead Line Construction Process
- Undertake Overhead Line Earthing and Bonding Installation Activities
- Undertake Overhead Line Main Steelwork Installation Activities
- Undertake Overhead Line Sectioning, Insulation, Registration and In-span Component Installation Activities
and 6 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.