Re: Reopened stations

[cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au (Christopher_Martin GORDON)]

: >The history of the Upfield line is most comprehensively covered by
: >Andrew Waugh in Somersault, the journal of the Signalling Record
: >Society; his efforts form one of the most comprehensive railway
: >histories ever written in Australia.

: Was the title of this work by any chance a reference to the
: "somersault" type mechanical signals as used on the former GNR in the
: U.K.?

Yes, being the Signalling Records Socity, then Somersault is a very good
name.  

There are still many Somersault signals in Victoria.  
Eltham - Hurstbridge, Flemington Racecourse, Geelong, Bacchus Marsh, 
Bedigo Line (no longer at Sunbury) and many others around usually
just a quandrant or two operating them, like Stony Point, Morwell, 
Lilydale, Sale, (and everywhere else in the country)

: I have a vague recollection of having seen something that looked very
: much like one of these in an old film (late 40s) shot just outside
: Flinders Street Station, and remember being surprised at the time as I
: didn't know that they had been used anywhere else.

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Chris Gordon
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