Re: Signalling queries

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

Bradley Torr <truenorth@one.net.au.SPAMTRAP> wrote in message
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> OK, under staff-and-ticket working, what is to stop a driver using a
ticket
> instead of the staff when entering a particular section, when the next
> train scheduled to enter the section is coming from the opposite
direction?
> In this scenario, if the driver of the first train uses a ticket instead
of
> a staff, when the second train arrives at the other end of the section,
> there will be no staff there for the second train to pick up!
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There is nothing to stop the driver taking the ticket. The normal procedure
is to take the staff, unless you are told otherwise by control. The staff
box, which holds the tickets, is unlocked by a key built into the staff, so
you must have the staff to get a ticket anyway.

Dave Malcolm