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

["Graeme Cleak" <gcleak@optusnet.com.au>]

Tony Gatt <baulko@tig.com.au> wrote in message
38E72844.A642E9FA@tig.com.au">news:38E72844.A642E9FA@tig.com.au...
> HXP1 wrote:
>
> > 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,
>
> Interesting, I didn't think they would have booked it out until last
train..

The Occupation through Heidelberg commenced at 21 00 hours Friday Nite.
Buses then operated all weekend.

GC.



>
> > 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.
>
> I wouldn't have expected the timbers to come out, but then again, all
frames
> were built independant of their buildings. (Usually the last thing
standing
> too..)
>
> > 'Twas finished by about 0600ish on Saturday morning.
> >
> > Incidentally, the Frame has gone to a new home in Gippsland.
>
> Thats even more interesting, I believed the frame was heading North and
then
> slightly south of Yass :)
>
> > --
> > HXP1
> > (now with v6.08 software)
>
> Were there new signals put in place (to replace the old "R" type signals
at the
> down end)?
>
> I know that there was a hybrid on the Up as well, the Auto on the approach
to
> Heidelberg on the single line had an "R" type A head, and a shiny GEC "B"
head
> when the last alterations were done.. wonder if that was replaced ??
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Tony Gatt.
>
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