Re: [NSW]New Train Crewing Boss

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

"keith malcolm" <kmalcolm@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
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| 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.
| >
| >
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| 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.

That's correct.