Comments on: How train signals work http://schinckel.net/2006/05/30/how-train-signals-work/ Like a fortune cookie, only without the fortune, and not a cookie. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:33:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Rebecca http://schinckel.net/2006/05/30/how-train-signals-work/#comment-1228 Rebecca Sat, 03 Jun 2006 01:54:09 +0000 http://schinckel.blogsome.com/2006/05/30/how-train-signals-work/#comment-1228 Hi Matthew, Well if you see me out on the tracks, just ask, and I can show you. In case you are wondering where to look, inside the drivers cab, behind the controls is where you will usually find me. HooRoo Rebecca Hi Matthew,
Well if you see me out on the tracks, just ask, and I can show you.
In case you are wondering where to look, inside the drivers cab, behind the controls is where you will usually find me.
HooRoo
Rebecca

]]> By: Matthew Schinckel http://schinckel.net/2006/05/30/how-train-signals-work/#comment-1227 Matthew Schinckel Sat, 03 Jun 2006 01:21:39 +0000 http://schinckel.blogsome.com/2006/05/30/how-train-signals-work/#comment-1227 Hi Rebecca, Thanks for your input. This blog isn't used to people who actually know what they are talking about, but instead people like me who only think they know. I'm not sure how putting a connection across the two rails would have caused the gates to come down in this instance then. Hi Rebecca,

Thanks for your input. This blog isn’t used to people who actually know what they are talking about, but instead people like me who only think they know.

I’m not sure how putting a connection across the two rails would have caused the gates to come down in this instance then.

]]> By: Rebecca http://schinckel.net/2006/05/30/how-train-signals-work/#comment-1226 Rebecca Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:29:46 +0000 http://schinckel.blogsome.com/2006/05/30/how-train-signals-work/#comment-1226 Hi Matthew, You are pretty close to the mark there. Basically the there is a break in the tracks, which you can usually see by the use of a plastic fishplate to hold the two sections rail together. When a train "joins" these two sections, it activates the bell block, which lowers the boom gates. Bell Blocks are set up for different distances, depending on "Stopping" or "Express" running, which is initiated by the Signaller at the departure end of the section. I hope all this makes sense. HooRoo Rebecca Hi Matthew,
You are pretty close to the mark there.
Basically the there is a break in the tracks, which you can usually see by the use of a plastic fishplate to hold the two sections rail together. When a train “joins” these two sections, it activates the bell block, which lowers the boom gates. Bell Blocks are set up for different distances, depending on “Stopping” or “Express” running, which is initiated by the Signaller at the departure end of the section.
I hope all this makes sense.
HooRoo
Rebecca

]]> By: Matthew Schinckel http://schinckel.net/2006/05/30/how-train-signals-work/#comment-1222 Matthew Schinckel Wed, 31 May 2006 04:59:13 +0000 http://schinckel.blogsome.com/2006/05/30/how-train-signals-work/#comment-1222 I'm just living dangerously, Simon. I’m just living dangerously, Simon.

]]> By: Simon http://schinckel.net/2006/05/30/how-train-signals-work/#comment-1220 Simon Tue, 30 May 2006 13:31:04 +0000 http://schinckel.blogsome.com/2006/05/30/how-train-signals-work/#comment-1220 if you took a photo of a group of youths like that in london you would have been stabbed. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5023422.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5023422.stm</a> have a look at how many stabbings we have here and a lot involving school kids! And just the other day, one of the guys from work was in a car park during the middle of the day when a guy and girl hasseled his wife and then beat them both up, his check bone was broken, for absolutely no reason. I rememeber how safe I felt back in little old Adelaide. if you took a photo of a group of youths like that in london you would have been stabbed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5023422.stm
have a look at how many stabbings we have here and a lot involving school kids!
And just the other day, one of the guys from work was in a car park during the middle of the day when a guy and girl hasseled his wife and then beat them both up, his check bone was broken, for absolutely no reason.
I rememeber how safe I felt back in little old Adelaide.

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