Re: [NSW]-Question about signal phones

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

"Eddie Oliver" <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote in message
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> signal_spotter@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Absolute rubbish. Go and look, and you will see every imaginable
> counterexample. Has someone been testing your gullibility all this time?

The position of the phone is stipulated for each kind of signal.