Re: CityRail passenger info upgrade

["Ron BESDANSKY (formerly Ron BEST)" <ronbest@bigpond.com>]

I meant the ones which had a series of plates with the name formed as a
collection of holes. There were two (or more) lamps behind each plate. The
plates were individual - I remember seeing a worker removing "Rookwood" from
an indicator on Circular Quay platform 1. Wish I'd tried to "souvenir" it.
Was quite a flexible system, for its technology level. New stations/routing
changes just needed new plates to be punched and inserted, and/or existing
plates re-arranged, then re-label the switches.

BTW, where are the bits from the concourse indicators at Sydney Central? I
loved those great "steering wheel" switch knobs! Because these indicators
(as opposed to the indicators on platforms) used rotary switches, there
seemed be a few "cheats" added over the years - a separate switch for just
one station.

Weren't these also used on Strathfield concourse?

Rgds

Ron BESDANSKY (formerly Ron BEST)
Hunslet <hunslet@cia.com.au> wrote in message
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> Eddie Oliver wrote: it's never been obvious to me
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> > just what those special skills were in the case of the old-style
> > indicators; most of the time they seemed maintenance-free).
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> Which "old type" indicators?    The upper quadrant (pull-down) indicators,
or the
> recently replaced ones from Central Concourse.
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> If you mean the latter, you should look inside them to see how they
worked!   To
> re-assemble them back to operational condition will be a nightmare!
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> Hunslet.
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