Re: Signalling in Victoria

[cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au (Christopher_Martin GORDON)]

: AFAIK the post has 2 signal upon it:
: Up Home platform to Up line
: Up Dwarf into siding.(with the siding sign)

: The practice of having a dwarf on the same post as a light 2 position signal
: is something of a Victorian quirk.  If it was a purely mechanical post, the
: signal into the siding would be a Disc. But if it was a Light post, then it
: became a dwarf.

At both ends of Eltham station (posts 2,11) both have two homes, one to 
the main line platform, and one to the back platform, and also each has
a dawf signal to the sidings it has a "Siding" sign above the light.

This line is interesting, on the down leaving Greensborough there is 
a home from each platform (it says to main line to post 11, where is
post 11?) then there is an Eltham Distant which I believe is fixed,
(why? I think it is because there are a lot of local trains, and
there wouldn't be a case where the arrival home, departure home, and
down home are all clear)

Anyway at Eltham there is an arrival home to the platforms or siding.
Then another Home at each end of the platform to another home (very 
short distance) just before the level crossing and after the points to
the siding, then an auto before another level crossing, and a Home to
diamond creek, another auto for the level crossing after wattle glen,
and a home to Hurstbridge.

The homes at Diamond creek are controled from the platform, does the 
driver change these?  How does it work when train cross at Diamond
Creek?
What is the indication at Hurstbridge when a train is approaching?
once the train is in the platform does the driver return the signal
to stop?

On the up why do you have two homes before Greensborough? Is that
distant signal fixed as well?



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Chris Gordon
http://www.ecr.mu.oz.au/~cmgord