Re: Signalling in Victoria

["Notagunzel" <notagunzel@bigfoot.com>]

Christopher_Martin GORDON <cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote in message
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> In the rules and Regs 1994 it has "Repeating singals for distant signals:
> two position"  and they are in the two position section.
>
> It is interesting because it this case the Repeating signal is two
> position, but by definition with two lights at night it is three
> position.

AFAIK once upon a time repeaters came in 2 flavours, ie when then they
repeated a 2 pos distant, and when they repeated a 3 pos signal.

Then sometime during the '80's they appeared at a few trailable loops
repeating the position of the points, i.e. G/Y = points set & locked, Y/Y =
points open.

The last place where a repeater was used to repeat a 2 pos distant was on
the down into Broadford, and that was hashed by abolishing the distant and
converting the repeater into the distant.

Recently the CRT siding appeared, and repeters were used to repeat the
position of the switchlock.  Soon after the big blue book was amended, all
references to repeater signals for a 2 pos distant was deleted, and a
section for repeaters before points was added.

So IMO repeaters were just like dwarfs, there existed the 2 pos version as
well as the 3 pos version.

B.