Re: [Melb] Broadmeadows re-signalling

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

Tony Gatt <baulko@tig.com.au> wrote in message
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> Christopher_Martin GORDON wrote:
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> > : All signals are track circuited, except No 19 (Down Home, Upfield
Line), there
> > : is an illuminated track diagram, and the points are rodded, but "air
assisted"
> > : because they are very heavy.
> >
> > What makes the points heavy?  Like the points at Somerton are just down
from
> > the signal box, but other places have points further away from the
signal
> > box.
> >
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> No 12 points (the ones that straddle the SG) are Double ended, with a lot
of space
> between each end.
>
> No 15 points are heavy, dunno why, I did use them when the compressor had
been
> borrowed by someone who thought they need it more than the signalman did.
They were
> quite hard to use.
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> > Chris Gordon
> It can be heavy due to the length of the lead,routing of lead,binding in A
frames along the lead.
Length of blades,and type of point configuration.Lack of graphite on
chairs,plus a few other imponderables.
Lineman