Re: [NSW]New Train Crewing Boss

["keith malcolm" <kmalcolm@tpg.com.au>]

Tezza <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> | 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.
>
> 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.
>
>

I don't really know the area or the safe working which applied, but if it
was block telegraph then it couldn't be an accept. IIRC an accept is the
first controlled signal at the end of an automatic section, and block tele
isn't automatic.

Dave Malcolm