Re: Signalling in Victoria

[jdennis@acslink.net.au]

>> I cant remember if the centre road at Clifton Hill is a through road. They
could
>> be home signals or dwafs. You would have to check the signaling diagram. It
has
>> been a long time since I was driving down that way.
>
> It's a running road. Probably not used much any more but in the days of the
mechanical
> signal boxes, any train not stopping at Clifton Hill (goods trains, school
specials,
> empty cars, etc.) usually went through the middle road. As they likewise did
through
> Oakleigh, Mordialloc and Essendon.

In my youth I spent many hours in Oakleigh B Box, over a period of many years
- early sixties era.  I hardly ever saw the centre road used.  Non-stop down
trains ran thru #1 road, and up trains generally thru #3 road.	I did manage
to have a returning fan trip routed via #4 road (the back platform) once as
the light had deterioriated and I needed the train slowed :-)

Further to this discussion, in the late 60s I used to regularly catch a train
(6:03pm IIRC) which ran express Richmond-Carnegie.  It ran express through
Caulfield on the normal up platform, and crossed to the down line under the
control of a dwarf showing (from memory) "clear low speed".

JD
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John Dennis
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