Talk:Sunshine rail disaster

Questions

Is post 25 a Home or a Distant signal?

Were there any track circuits?

Quarter Mile Safety Zone.

In British (and presumably Victorian) practice, a train cannot be accepted from the previous station on the Bendigo line unless:

• there is an Outer Home Signal a quarter mile (440yards) from the Home Signal Post 24;

• or if no Outer Home, by holding the train at the previous station.

Tabletop (talk) 02:00, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

• There would not have been track circuits, it was 1908.

• The order of signals in Queensland are distant/home//starter where the station is between the home and starter. NSW has outer home signals, though, and Nyanda (a station that controlls a level crossing across both QLD and NSW lines), uses separate terms for these two systems. At a guess, i would put the signals on 24 and 27 as distants.

• Victoria is on 5'3" guage, and i should look for some Irish practice here too.

Wendy.krieger (talk) 09:23, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Can confirm post 25 was a distant, 24 a home. See the diagram at http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10659447 Triptothecottage (talk) 05:36, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Visibility of the home signal

It was given in evidence that a report had been made the previous January that the siting of the home signal (protecting a train standing at the platform) was poor and its indication could not be seen prior to passing the previous (distant) signal.

Why would it be necessary to see a home signal before passing the distant signal? That's what distant signals are for. I couldn't find anything about that in the references given at the end of the paragraph. --PhiH (talk) 11:06, 19 May 2021 (UTC)