Re: [NSW]-Question about signal phones

["keith malcolm" <kmalcolm@tpg.com.au>]

Sounds like a load of crap to me. I've never seen any thing in the manuals,
I'm not a driver though only a signaller

Dave Malcolm.

<signal_spotter@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> Drivers,
>
> Is there a convention with signal phones that if it's mounted on the
> actual signal then that signal is 'permissive' (ie may be passed at
> stop under certain conditions, autos and accepts) and if it's mounted
> on a post beside the signal then that signal is 'absolute' (ie may not
> be passed at stop, homes and starters). There seems to be this
> unwritten rule which someone came up with years ago and we've seemed to
> follow but upon speaking to drivers about it, they're response
> was "That's news to me". So somewhere along the line it hasn't filtered
> through. Or has it?
>
> regards Ian
> Signal Design Engineer
>
>
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