Re: Olympic Sprint Platform - Lidcombe

[Barry Campbell <barryC@qimr.edu.au>]

Railway Rasputin wrote:
> 
> C. Dewick wrote:
> 
> > In my experience all turnouts used for facing movements have an FPL, or else
> > they have to be clipped.
> >
> 
> New safe working ammendments due out in June say that ALL facing points must be clipped and
> locked. The old rule was that only Passenger Trains were  to be clipped and locked.
> 
Under all circumstances? That would be crazy. Even the clipping for
passenger trains is a bit silly. After all if you are putting a
passenger train in a loop operated by a standard key locked ground frame
hoe much more reassurance do you need. QR used to use 'kangaroo' levers
on non interlocked loop points in places and it didn't seem to cause too
much trouble (Not that I advocate going that far!)


Barry Campbell