Re: Olympic Sprint Platform - Lidcombe

[Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au>]

David Proctor wrote:

> *shrug* - ws just an observation based on what it *appears* to be at Harris
> Park. Someone will probably come along now and tell me there is a new design
> of FPL that looks nothing like the old ones.

Exactly. Clamp locks, claw locks etc look quite different from
"traditional" mechanisms, and one should not assume that any
power-operated set of points will look "traditional" these days. Indeed
a surprisingly high proportion of trailing power points these days have
FPLs.

If you look at a diagram of a modern installation, you will often note a
much higher incidence of FPLs than would once have been the case.

Of course it might not be too long before the old style may be the ones
that are perceived as odd.

Eddie Oliver