Re: [General] Information about block working

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Eddie Oliver" <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote in message
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> Ronald BESDANSKY wrote:
> >
> > When a double-line manual track block  section ends at a 1) a terminal
> > station; or 2) a station where the line becomes single (worked by OTS, ETS
> > etc), how are trains accepted from the box in the rear? It would seem that
> > all trains would have to be accepted under the "line clear but station or
> > junction blocked" regulation. I think that is not normally allowed for
> > passenger trains??
>
> Despite the number of postings answering this question, a couple of key
> issues have been omitted.
>
> Firstly (although someone else DID say this), the term "manual track
> block" is very confusing (and certainly not a valid term in any
> Australian railway). Presumably just "manual block" was meant, but some
> answers referred to other systems of the "track block" variety.

<snip>

> Also someone brought accept signals into the discussion. Accept signals
> (an exclusively NSW concept, at least in that terminology) exist in
> automatic or track block areas, not manual block areas. In manual block,
> "acceptance" is done by line clear being given on the block instruments.


You appear to be talking about Block Telegraph.