Re: [General] Signal failures

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

Ronald BESDANSKY <ronbest@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> If auto signals fail in a section which is not shown on signal box
indicator
> boards, then surely the situation is no different to that which applies to
> manual block sections, i.e. the only way of knowing the whereabouts of
> trains is by visual observation of the trains as they pass various points.
> What I am suggesting is that the most appropriate thing to do in this
> situation is to introduce telephone (or radio) absolute block working,
which
> would surely be preferable to each and every train having to proceed at
> "extreme caution" through the affected section(s). Of course, this assumes
> there are suitably qualified staff at the locations concerned.

With the number of trains Cityderail run and the number of signal failures,
it wouldn't be practical, you'd have trains banked up on every line.