Re: Brief Signalling failure at Camberwell

["Michael Wierzbinski" <wizzer1865@NOSPAMoptusnet.com.au>]

"Sam Eades" <seades@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> "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

Strangely enough, this happens on a very regular basis, at least once a week.