Re: Catchpoints - what are they?

[usenet.spam@gunzel.net (Michael Kurkowski)]

trainman@ozemail.com.au (David Johnson) wrote in
<3930FECA.39992D5@ozemail.com.au>: 

>Evad Rehtona wrote:
>
>> Melbourne has tram catchpoints at the various locations where tram
>> tracks cross railway lines at level crossings, and the points are set
>> when the train boom gates come down, to derail into the gutter any
>> tram which proceeds towards the level crossing if a train is
>> approaching. 
>
>At Gardiner there are scratch marks 4'8.5" apart in the concrete after
>these catch points.

For a while, at the Spencer Street end of Bourke Street, there was a pair 
of grooves 4'8.5" apart for a distance of about 50 metres, between the 
tracks, just after the (non-catch) points. They might even be there still.

Regards

Michael

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