Re: Olympic Sprint Platform - Lidcombe

["Ron BEST" <ronbest@bigpond.com>]

C. Dewick <craigd@lios.apana.org.au> wrote in message
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> In <7gdf68$arj@ob1.uws.EDU.AU> "Ben Staples"
<98711576@student.hawkesbury.uws.edu.au> writes:
>
> >What about the poor passengers who need to catch the train from Bondi Jn.
Do
> >they have to wait an extra 15min so the people at Edgecliff can get to
work
> >on time?
>
> Snip
>
> Even so, the crossover at Edgecliff needs a minimum of two staff since
there
> is an electric release for each end, plus a single-lever frame for each
end,
> so you have to have two people (for fast operation) so one person can work
> each end together. And then the turnouts have to be clipped since there's
no
> facing point lock mechanisms (they're normally trailing turnouts in both
> directions).
>
> Snip

can someone pls tell me whether trailing crossovers used regularly for
turning trains back have one or both sets of trailing points fitted with
FPLs? If not, doesn't this contradict the rule about FPLs having to be
fitted to ALL points used by passenger trains in the facing direction?

Ron BEST