Re: [NSW]New Train Crewing Boss

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

"Eddie Oliver" <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote in message
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| Chris Downs wrote:
| >
| > Tezza <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
|
| > > Could she have pulled off the old Accept at Marulan? (I think I've got
the
| > > wrong place but it's years since I've been down there. Where the ore
trains
| > > used to come off the branch.)
| >
| > Must have been the old Accepts lucky day!
|
| I think not. There was never an Accept at Medway Junction, which seems
| to be the popular choice for Tezza's intended location - because in the
| mechanical-lever era,  there was NSW standard block in each direction,
| and Accepts don't exist in block telegraph sections. There was no branch
| at Marulan, and the only Accept there was power-operated anyway. So back
| to the drawing board.
|
| Indeed, I would be interested to see a list of locations where Accepts
| were ever mechanically operated.
|
| I agree that pulling off the mechanical distants at Medway Junction may
| have been difficult at times.

I could be wrong, it may have been an Outer Home, but I'm sure it was an
Accept. Whatever it was, it was a loooooong way out and veeerrry hard to
pull off. And Annabel wasn't small.