Signalling irregularities: Was Re: [NSW]New Train Crewing Boss

["runaway" <whipfest@yahoo.com.au>]

"Eddie Oliver" <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote in message
news:3A9CC5C0.E2BE7552@efs.mq.edu.au...
> runaway wrote:
>
> > In safeworking schools you were asked how you could tell if a section
was
> > block telegraph. The answer was the provision of lower quadrant signals.
>
> Then the examiners, rather than the students, should have been failed.
> What did they think the situation was at Binalong, for instance, in the
> days when it was covered with lower quadrants?

Binalong is indeed interesting, it's the only place south of Leumeah that
has double light colour light signals (must have been spares just lying
around :^).

> > Yet another spanner in the works - In the middle of the block telegraph
> > section Harden South to Wallendbeen, you come across Demondrille with
its
> > accepting signals.
>
> Except of course they're not "real" accepts.
>
> > BTW, one of Demondrille's accepts has an oval plate (box normally cut
out),
> > and the other has a rectangular plate (box normally cut in). In
addition,
> > some knucklehead has put an accept plate on the down distant !
>
> The knucklehead who placed any of these accepting plates should be
> identified and dealt with.

Rumour has it he is quite a Star.

runaway.