Re: Olympic Sprint Platform - Lidcombe

[Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

Barry Campbell wrote:

> 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

That is what I have been told by people at rail training plus those who are writing the new
rules. its is to do with saving money with  derailments etc