Re: Safeworking!

["Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@nospam.bhp.com.au>]

Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote in message
371DBA02.2C36@efs.mq.edu.au">news:371DBA02.2C36@efs.mq.edu.au...
> > >
> > While on the CPH tour to Parkes on Saturday we stopped in the Pinecliffe
> > area (between Molong and Manildra) and the driver said we were waiting
for a
> > new train order. It was seven minutes before we left. Was the old train
> > order valid to a certain place ( we didn't seem to be at any particular
> > place) or a certain time (it was 17:00)?
>
> You probably had a train order only to the Manildra yard limit board,
> which is some distance to the east of Manildra.
>
> It is a requirement in the NSW train order system (again part of the NSW
> ultra-conservatism) that if you have an order for a train approaching in
> the opposite direction to enter a crossing location, or a shunting order
> for movements within that location, the other approaching train can only
> get an order to the YLB.
>
> Was there another train at Manildra when you got there (possibly
> including the local Manildra private shunter)?
>
> Eddie Oliver

Yes, there were some 81s there, I think they were waiting for us to pass so
they could do some shunting. MM01 was over near the platform.
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Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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