Re: Catchpoints - what are they?

["Wizzer" <wizzer1865@optusnet.com.au>]

"Michael Kurkowski" <usenet.spam@gunzel.net> wrote in message
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> 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
>
> --
I rememberthat incident, in that the tram involved didn't want to be a tram
anymore and decided that its wider gauge cousins had a better life and thus
tried to join them:')

Wizzer