general instructions. - Limit Of Shunt

8 T r a i n Stan and Ticket System.—Continued.
Siding points
coatrolied by
train staff.
Staff stations
shown in
working time
tables or
Appendices.
Form of train
staff ticket.
(b) The engine driver of a ballast train that has to do work on the
must be told, when receiving the staff, to which end of the section
it is to 1:‘e taken, and at what time it is to be there, in order to clear
the line for the next train.
(c) When a ballast train, working in the section, has to return to
the staff station in the rear, no shunting outside the home signal at
that end of the station must be allowed. •
(d) When a ballast train in possession of the staff is at work on the
line, it will not be necessary to send out flagmen to protect it.
21. (a) Points giving communication between the sidings and the
running line controlled by the train staff cannot be opened without
the train staff for that section of the line where the siding is situated,
and the train staff cannot be removed until the points have been placed
in the proper position for trains to pass upon the running line, and
securely locked so as to prevent vehicles passing from the sidings on
to the running line.
(b) On arriving at a siding, the points of which are controlled by
the train staff, the engine driver must hand the train staff to the guard
or man in charge of the siding, to enable him to unlock the points.
(c) When the necessary shunting has been completed, and the points
have been placed in the proper .position for trains to pass upon the
running line, the guard or man in charge of the siding must return
the train staff to the engine driver, and the latter must not proceed
on his journey until he has obtained possession of it.
22. The working time-tables or appendices, issued for the guidance
of the servants, will contain a list of the staff stations, and of the siding
points controlled by the train staff.
No..
FORM OF TRAIN STAFF TICKET.
On lines where such ticket is in use.
Train No.
To the engine driver.
(Not in use on N.E.R.)
TRAIN STAFF TICK:rn‘.
Line or Branch.
You are authorised, after seeing the train staff for the
section, to proceed from
to. , and the train staff will follow.
Signature of person in iharge
Date_
(Back of Ticket).
This ticket must be given up by the engine driver,
immediately on arrival, to the person in charge of the staff
working at the place to which he is authi -ised to proceed, to
be cancelled and dealt with as the latter ma: be instructed by
the Superintendent.