Re: Brief Signalling failure at Camberwell

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

"Paul Hambleton" <phambleton@labyrinth.net.au> wrote in message
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> A bit of excitement this morning at Camberwell.
> As the 1023 UP from Alamein approached platform 2, all the signals went
out.
> No lights whatsoever. The driver dutifully stopped at the automatic signal
> guarding entry into platform 2 before proceeding into the platform. All
the
> signals then came back on displaying red before normal operations resumed.
> Anyone know what happened.

Sounds like a power surge or a brief power failure. With a power surge, all
of the circuit breakers have to reset, then all track circuits "drop"
causing signals to go to normal (stop). The signaller then needs to run the
time releases to put them back to proceed (usually 1 to 2 mins)

Sam