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Post by Oracle on Nov 9, 2010 9:17:16 GMT
I have posted in Chat about the possibly unique disc repeater MW10R on the curve at Marchwood on the Marchwood branch off the Fawley branch. This is raised up in fact above cantrail height and is a repeater for conventional disc-type (white/red) shunt signal MW10 which controls the entrance to the loop at Marchwood station site. There is also one ion Eastleigh Yard, and the round disc signal on the goods siding at Greenford: www.roscalen.com/signals/Greenford/index.htmIs there or has there been anything similar on LT? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2010 12:20:27 GMT
There used to be some black/yellow disc signals in some of the Central Line goods yards at the east end of the line and indeed remember seeing them, I am sure at Woodford, Theydon Bois and one at Ongar (LZ28).
And then there were the yellow/black distant signals for BR trains at the east end of the Central, north end of the Met and Park Junction - High Barnet on the Northern.
Is it these you mean?
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Post by Oracle on Nov 9, 2010 13:57:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2010 21:30:06 GMT
These are not normally repeaters (but perhaps in the case you mention it is), they are commonly known as 'headshunt' signals, which allow all trains to pass into the headshunt without permission, only rotating to the 'green' position if a route onto the main is set. They are a signal in their own right with no association with another shunt further up the track.
I haven't seen these used on LU, only on the national rail network.
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Post by mrfs42 on Nov 11, 2010 21:56:07 GMT
I'd have to check (currently being in a log cabin somewhere on an unfamiliar hill in an unfamiliar part of Wales) but the goods yard at either Theydon or South Woodford had a yellow disc.
Yellow discs are uncommon right enough, but the rarest disc is a black and white one, mechanically operated- anyone care to guess where it is?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2010 22:49:50 GMT
Maybe the young man in deepest Wales is thinking of LH32 at South Woodford, LJ53 & 58 at Woodford, LS3 & 4 at Buckhurst Hill, LV4 & 5 at Theydon Bois and LZ28 at Ongar.
Back to the original post RJP13 at the north end of the northbound platform at Rickmansworth repeated the shunt signal JP13 at the south end of the platforn for wrong direction moves with light engines or long freights backing into the northbound refuge A.K.A. 23 road.
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Post by mrfs42 on Nov 11, 2010 23:06:25 GMT
I'd forgotten about Ricky - but I was indeed thinking of those signals on the Central
There's also the 'Aldwych' repeater half-way down the siding at Wood Green, which although a light box fulfills the same function as Oracle's disc.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2010 23:26:02 GMT
Aren't RJP1 and RJP2 Rickmansworth southbound black-on-white repeaters?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2010 12:57:33 GMT
Aren't RJP1 and RJP2 Rickmansworth southbound black-on-white repeaters? Yes, also known as banner repeaters in other quarters, normally black band on white background, though some examples have red band and act as a stop signal. With the advent off led banners you can now have banners showing a green background when the signal is green as the banner will only normall show whether the signal is on or off. |
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