Re: Alamein line problem?

["Sam Eades" <seades@bigpond.net.au>]

Chris Gordon <cmgord@VICSIG.alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Please correct me since I will be wrong, but my impressions of these
emergency
> > panels are
> > not favouirable.
> >
> > The panel seem to offer limited funcionality and cannot run the area
safely for
> > any period ( unlike the signal boxes they replaced) - often in closets
or dark
> > places. They seem crippled from the start in route setting - and I
believe
> > never intended to be used for any length of time. I saw the Clifton Hill
one
> > and it seems if there was a failure it probally would affect it as well.
> >
> > They seem to be nintendo things, put in to be there but not to be used.
Again I
> > hope I'm wrong.
>
> Well for a start Ashburton is not an emergency panel.
>
> An emergency panel is one that can operate the interlocking when other
> control is lost.  For example Metrol controls places like Victoria Park,
> Clifton Hill, South Kensington.  If the links are lost to there places
> then the emergency panel can be used.  Victoria Park and South
> Kensington were once operated locally, so they are just the old panels
> moved to the relay room and remote control provided.

Sorry, I wasn't using correct terminology. By calling Ashburton an
"Emergency Panel" I meant that it is only switched "in" in an emergency (not
regularly used). Ashburton is, of course, a regular panel, that operates
itself automatically most of the time, but can be switched in during
disruptions (similar to Bell, and now Heidelberg for that matter)

Sam