Re: [NSW]-Question about signal phones

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

<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?


All signals can be passed at stop. The position of the phone does change
though as you point out, depending on the kind of signal. One of the first
things we learnt in Safeworking years ago was using the placement of the phone
to help determine what kind of signal it was.