Re: Signalling in Victoria

[David Langley <del@ancc.com.au>]

L & D wrote:

> Christopher_Martin GORDON wrote:
>
> > Ok, just a couple more questions about 2 position signalling.  The numbers on
> > the signal posts are usually the lever number, and where there are many levers
> > the first lever number is on the post.  Is this correct?
>
> No  if you check some of the diagrams like the old ones on the Upfield and Epping
> lines you can see where the number would start at one Signal box and continue for
> sometime an example Merri had posts 44,45,46.   Then Thornbury had post 1 then the
> numbers continued through to Bell's down advance starter no 16  Again another
> example was post 5 at Regent through to Keon Parks down advance starter post 32.
>

In the suburban area where signal boxes were located close together and quite often
signals from two different boxes were on the same post, e.g. homes and distants, the
signal posts were numbered consecutively through a number of locations. In the
country, places like Ballarat and Bendigo had consecutively numbered signals but out
on the main lines at interlocked places each station had its own numbering starting
from 1. Mostly the number one was a signal at the Melbourne end but there was  time
when signals were numbered the other way round. In fact so were signal boxes. Hey you
could write a book on this subject. It probably wouldn't interest DJohnson because he
thinks Victorian signalling is silly.

DEL