Re: New questions for rail experts

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Chris Gordon" <cmgord@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
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> Would you be against fitting the XPT, endeavor, explorer, sprinter,
> diesels etc... with trip arms?  (Track machines already operate under
> special rules in Victoria, so they don't need them).  What is the
> protection for hi-rails?

What about where these trains have to pass signals at stop (which they do
every day through loops worked by the driver)? Also, what about fitting
train stops to every single signal that these trains work past? Manually
operated signals as well? (The old wire operated lower quadrant semaphores
come to mind).

Dave