Re: Crossing loop design (r.e. Southern Aurora crash)

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

bf0017@hotmail.com wrote in message <7a12ad$s63$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>
>Easily fixed: replace the signals with automatic power operated
upper-quadrant
>semaphore signals.  Entrance to a loop or facing junction: signals
bracketted
>together with the main line signal arm highest, the loop or secondary line
>signal bracketted to the main post on the side that the secondary line/loop
>diverges.
>
>This type of signal can be used for distant marking (fishtail end, single
arm
>approx 1/3 down the post) nad home/accept signalling.
>
>The brave signal engineer who adopts semaphore signalling can enhance
>visibility by using larger spectacles & lens with bright lights (perhaps
those
>taken from the now redundant colour light type) thus allowing for poor
weather
>and night time visibility.


And great advances can be made with a modern interlocking frame, no
unreliable releays, just plain locks in tappets.  Plus the signalman could
tend the garden between trains, and keep the station clear of rubbish, SELL
TICKECTS (!) to passengers (not a customer in sight), & wave to the Guard as
he rolls by...... :o)

>
>:-)
>
>Brett.

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BC