Re: How can we make trains run later?

["Ronald BESDANSKY" <ronbest@bigpond.com>]

Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au> wrote in message
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> Ronald BESDANSKY wrote:
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> > Bill Bolton <billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org> wrote in message
> > ZrjwNyz0cVYlO2nfO9mc1OSOCXkW@4ax.com">news:ZrjwNyz0cVYlO2nfO9mc1OSOCXkW@4ax.com...
> > > David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
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> > > > 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).
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> > 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
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> > Ron BESDANSKY
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> Workshops.
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> The red ones were apparantly used but for a very short time. The front
> was supposed to be the same as the back.

Was that so you could tell where the train you just missed was going???!!!

Rgds

Ron BESDANSKY