Re: [VIC] Heidelberg Re-signalling & Service alterations

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Craig Haber <albatross@harnessnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:38E47BF3.59EC265A@harnessnet.com.au...
> Sam Eades wrote:

> > As previously mentioned, the new signaling at Heidelberg will be
> > commissioned this weekend (01 and 02 April) and the old signaling and
> > signal frame will be decommissioned.

> How do they get the frame out of the building?  Dismantle it bit-by-bit?

In a word, yes.

One the Signalling was booked out, at about 2100ish, the frame was taken to
pieces.  First the locking, tappets & troughs were removed, followed by the
floorplates, levers, cam & lever locks, starting at one end.  This took
several hours, as lever locks on every lever slow things down.  Then the
tricky bit.  The 2 shafts in the frame (for the levers & the cams) are
continuous, so the standards have to be slid to each end of the frame &
lifted out.  Lastly the 2 beams of Oregon timber that the frame sat on came
out, getting these out around the corner through the door without destroying
poor Mr Westinghouse's shiny new panel was slightly tricky to say the least.

'Twas finished by about 0600ish on Saturday morning.

Incidentally, the Frame has gone to a new home in Gippsland.

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