Re: Early Commonwealth Railways days

John Dennis (jdennis@acslink.net.au)
Fri, 31 Oct 1997 05:26:28 GMT

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>The standard form of signals on the CR was mcKenzie and Holland somersault
>semaplores similar to, but not the same as VR and WAGR.
>The signals at Kalgoorlie station are standard WAGR.
>AFAIK, the only signals on the CR TAR line outside of Port Pirie and
>Kalgoorlie were home signals at Rawlinna, Cook, Tarcoola and Port Augusta.
>These were located at the approach only, ie, no departure signals.
>When Spencer Junction was installed, SAR type light signals were used.

There was also a manual semaphore signal installation at Stirling
North, presumably dating from the opening of the standard gauge CAR.
These signals were controlled from a signal box, and it certainly
looked to me to be a fully interlocked arrangement.

Of course, they have all been replaced by light signals now.

PS: Sorry for the lengthy delay in this posting, but I sent it *weeks*
ago, but it obviously never got beyond my wonderful ISP :-)

Cheers...JD
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