Re: Reopened stations

[John Dennis <jdennis@acslink.net.au>]

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 04:56:00 GMT, aprice@mail.dotcom.fr (Andrew Price)
wrote:

>On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:28:42 +1000, Eddie Oliver
><eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote:
>
>>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.?
>
>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.

Yes, the same type of signal arm.  Used in Vic, WA, in SA on the
Commonwealth Railways (IIRC) and in other states (I think) in small
quantities, or in earlier times.

Also used in New Zealand.

Cheers...JD