-=> Quoting Alec Cameron to Scott Pitcher <=-
 SP> Is it true that they still use manual staff exchange for safe-working on
 SP> the NSW north coast main line? I thought that kind of ancient technology
 AC> I do not know. But ancient technolgy, can sometimes be the most
 AC> appropriate. That line has a very low traffic density, and there have
 AC> been serious vandal attacks on signalling instruments.
Ok, I just saw this in a picture in June 1997 Digest. The driver of a
north bound NR freight train is exchanging the staff with a south
bound XPT. There are a few places in Victoria where this still happens.
One of them is the northern end of the metropolitan Upfield line,
although that is soon to become history.
Scott
... "42? 7 and a half million years and all you can come up with is 42?!"
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