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From a horizontal
position,
thus
Horizontal position,
before application :—
General Instructions,.—ContinuaL 1 2 9
CATTLE WAGONS CONVEYING FISH ON MAIN LINE TR INS—
BERWICK AND MOSS.
General Rules 165 and 194.
Cattle Wagons built to Coaching Stock requirements (see footnote page
147), conveying Fish traffic may be attached to Main line trains on which
four-wheeled vehicles are permitted to work. They must be marshalled
in precisely the same way as four-wheeled vehicles on these trains are now
dealt with. ( O . 6924 T. 27500---9-17)
Instructions for Working Communication between passengers,
Guard, and Driver, by means of the Automatic brake.
General Rules 165, 177 (a), 192, 194 (b), 206, 225, and B.T.R. 17.
1.—(a) Carriage stock, passenger vans, horse boxes and special cattle
boxes have been fitted with a system of communication between Passenger,
Guard, and Driver, by means of the Automatic. Brake.
(b) Inside the compartment a chain runs immediately over the quarter
lights and doors on both sides of the carriage ; this chain is connected to a
rod fixed outside across one end of the carriage, and at each end of the rod
is a red disc. Before the train starts the guard must satisfy himself that
the discs are in their normal position, i.e.,horizontal.
2.--(a) A passenger requiring to communicate with the guard and driver,
will pull down the chain provided for the purpose. This will cause the
partial application of the brake, which will be in*ated by the gauges on
the engine and in the guard's van. A whistle attached to the valve also
sounds until the apparatus is re-set.
(b) A small disc will be exhibited on each side of that carriage from which
the communication has been made, the discs being turned :—
To a vertical
position,
thus :—
(c) The guard can ascertain from which compartment ,of the carriage the
alarm was given by the slackness of the communication chain.
(d) In certain Corridor and Open Carriages the position of the chain inside
varies, and the rod and discs are fixed thus :—
Vertical position,
after application :—
A small wood box which opens with a carriage key is fixed in the vestibule ;
and inside the box is a lever, and sometimes a chain attachment, by means
of which the apparatus may be re-set.