Re: Alamein line problem?

[david <david@gwmail.nmit.vic.edu.au>]

Thankyou, just what I needed to show the correct picture...

Regards,
David Head

Chris Gordon wrote:

> > 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.
>
> See: http://www.railpage.org.au/vicsig/signalling/ashburton/index.html
>
> Clifton Hill is one of a kind.  (being a *true* emergency panel, almost
> all the rest are old panels that once had signallers working them), like
> Laverton, Lalor, Keon Park, Victoria Park, South Kensington, etc...
>
> Moorabbin is a different story again.
>
> Places like Bell, Ashburton, Darling, Brighton Beach, Chelsea, Seaford,
> etc... are only switched in as required and spend the rest of the time
> switched out and operating automatically.
>
> --
>
> C.
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