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Re: Olympic Sprint Platform - Lidcombe
- Subject: Re: Olympic Sprint Platform - Lidcombe
- From: keithm@commslab.gov.au (Keith Malcolm)
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 07:20:35 GMT
- Newsgroups: aus.rail, misc.transport.rail.australia-nz
- Organization: Dept of Communications LAB
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In article <373651E8.4B87BB35@fastlink.com.au> Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au> writes:
>From: Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au>
>Subject: Re: Olympic Sprint Platform - Lidcombe
>Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:26:32 +1000
>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
1210 would never have been derailed at Queanbeyan in 1994 had this new rule
been in effect.