Re: How can we make trains run later?

[Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

Ronald BESDANSKY wrote:
> 
> Bill Bolton <billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org> wrote in message
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> > David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > > The marker lights were understood by everyone
> >
> > Well, I knew what the North Shore combination was because that was the
> > line I travelled on frequently but I didn't have any idea what the
> > other combinations meant and always had to go a look them up in First
> > Stop Central whenever I had a need to decode them in a photograph.
> >
> There wasn't a "North Shore" combination! The train would display whatever
> light code was appropriate to where it had come from/was going to - top left
> & right for West, centre and top left for Hornsby via Strathfield, centre &
> top right for South (also used by Illawarra trains).
> 
> There was, however, an "Eastern Suburbs" code - top right & lower left.
> 
> Without looking it up, can anyone remember what the code with just the
> centre light on meant??
> 
> One thing that always puzzled me - why were RED lights provided in the top
> centre and lower left fittings, when these were never normally used? In case
> of lamp failure, perhaps?
> 
> Rgds
> 
> Ron BESDANSKY

Workshops.

The red ones were apparantly used but for a very short time. The front
was supposed to be the same as the back. It didn't work very well so
they went to the current format of two reds horizontal.

rgds