Re: home signal

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Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote in message
391416B2.FBED1AE7@efs.mq.edu.au">news:391416B2.FBED1AE7@efs.mq.edu.au...

> Actually Accept signals are an interesting breed, largely unique to NSW.
> Victoria has "controlled automatics" in some contexts similar to the NSW
> usage of Accepts, but certainly not uniformly so. Other systems tend not
> to have them at all (with exceptions in specific instances). There must
> be some deep history somewhere as to exactly how the NSW usage did
> develop, probably when Mr Byles was in charge.

Victorian Controlled Autos are usually for either shunting towards level
crossings, or if the overlap of the Controlled Auto would foul a trailing
set of points.  Thus at East Richmond, there is a crossover between the
Local & Through, and there was a Controlled Auto on the Local, as the
overlap was foul of trailing points, but on the through it was just a plain
auto, for the overlap only had facing points in it.

Cont. Auto   Home
|-o0         |-00
-----------------------
Plain Auto   Home  /
|-o0         |-00 /
-----------------------

Catch is quite a few Controlled Autos in the suburban area (like East
Richmond) have been converted to Home Signals, just without a 'c' light.

Does this make this thread hijacked...?

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