Re: Oldest set of flashing lights at a road crossing still in situ

["Lineman" <grime@dcsi.net.au>]

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> Notagunzel <notagunzel@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> > > > I wonder if the National Trust or Heritage council has placed the
> > > > Koo-Wee-Rup (Vic) level crossing on its register as a notable item
> > to be
> > > > protected.
> > > > I was led to believe that it was the oldest complete installation
> > on the
> > > > Victorian system,dating from the mid 1940s
> >
> > > I had suspected that they may be the oldest set in situ. Do any
> > others of
> > > this type still exist in use?
> >
> > > For those who haven't seen them, they are the type with a single
> > lamp being
> > > used to light lenses facing each direction. Most signals these days
> > have a
> > > seperate lamp housing for each direction - forward and rear of the
> > post.
> >
> > They are certainly the only ones I've seen around.  (Model HC81?)
> > They are Cast Iron.
> >
> > The Crossing won't be oldest complete installation unless it has the
> > original control circuits, which if it was 1940's would have been a
> > high tech DX13 interlocking Track Relay.
> >
> > If FV ever start running back down to Koala, I expect they won't
> > survive the attack of the LED's.
> >
> > --
> > Mr Notagunzel.
> > Rail Transportation Connoisseur.
> > notagunzel@bigfoot.com
> > (Waiting for any move at http://www.bigfoot.com/~notagunzel)
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> Accepting that Koo-Wee-Rup are the oldest Flashing Lights, where were the
> first Boom Barriers fitted in Victoria???
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> McKinnon had European type Booms (full gate type) until the third line was
> built, were these the first Booms???
>
> Bob.
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> If Mckinnon booms where operated by signalman winding wheel would they not
then be classified as mechanical gates?
If this was the case then perhaps somewhere else like Glenferrie Rd Kooyong
would be first electric booms.

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