Re: Alamein line problem?

["B." <gunzel412@dingoblue.gunzel.net.au>]

Tony Gatt <baulko@tig.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Sam Eades" <seades@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> > Chris Gordon <cmgord@VICSIG.alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
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> > > Places like Spotswood and West Footscray (suburban lines)
are basically
> > > dead and can't be used.
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> > How often are the goods lines switched in at West Footscray?
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> The last time I went to West Footscray Box(1994), the connection
was still
> in place between the goods lines and the suburban, the frame had
2 closing
> levers, and the interlocking had been "butchered"  (read -
modified) so
> badly, that you still had to operate levers 7 & 12 in the
suburban closing
> sequence -  they were opposing dwarfs in the former (removed)
sidings on the
> down. Signal 7 gave a phantom (relay fed) indication when the
lever was
> reversed (it was actually removed), and signal 12 was still
working in the
> fenced off part of what is now (and was also then) the carpark.
Another
> cheap interlocking rationalisation at its best.
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> I believe it was done this way as it contained complex
interlocking and
> circuitry for the "half way notch" in the closing sequence that
allowed
> signals 7 & 12 to be placed at "proceed" while trains were
shunting in the
> yards.
>
> With that gone, and now the connection removed between the main
and "Totty
> Yards", I would guess.. "Never"
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> Tony.
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