Re: [SYD] Central Yard signal SY54

[Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au>]

Damien George wrote:

> There are no provisions within the NSW signal standards to have a low
> speed on a single light signal. The closest thing to a low speed on a
> slcl signal is the close-up. eg 33.3 signal on the down main at
> Campbelltown.

RUBBISH. The countryside is full of them. For instance almost every
(maybe every) CTC crossing loop has low speed indications for admission
to the loop or when the starting signal is at stop. 

As an interesting recent reference, see Weekly Notice 46/2000 page 14,
which refers to modifications at Taree: "The Down Home Signal No. 3 will
be altered to display a Caution aspect for the Main Line in lieu of the
Low Speed aspect, which will be displayed for the Loop Line only..."

> The signals within the Strathfeild/Lidcombe area do not have low speed
> indications that are seperate from the bottom head. ALL signals within
> this area that have low speed indications on them form part of the
> main head i.e. the fourth light on the bottom head. The additional
> lamp below the main heads on these signals are call-on indications and
> not low speeds as first thought.

I am sorry, but it is a simple fact of life that many do have them. Go
and look.