general instructions. - Limit Of Shunt

IS Extracts from Block Telegraph Regulations for the guidance of Engin
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Drivers and others not supplied with a copy of the
Block Telegraph Regulations.—Continued.
Double Li
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• Regulation 26.—Opening and Closing of Boxes.--(c) No engine, ,rain, or
vehicle is to be allowed to Conti pass from one running line to another, or to enterupon
the main lines at a nued. box which is switched out of circuit.
SINGLE LINES WORKED BY ELECTRIC TRAIN STAFF AND
ELECTRIC TRAIN TABLET.
Engine Drivers not to start without Tablet or Staff and proper Signals being
exhibited. (a) Except as provided in Regulations'14a, 14b, and 25, an engine
driver will render himself liable to dismissal if he leaves a tablet or staff
station without the tablet or staff for that section of the line over which he
is about to run, or unless it has been shown to him as required by the following
paragraph, and by Regulation 6.
(b) When a train has more than one engine in front, or when two trains or
two or more light engines are coupled together, the tablet or staff must be shewn
to each driver, and delivered to and carried by the driver of the last engine.
(c) After receiving the tablet or staff, the driver must not proceed until
all the necessary fixed or other signals have been exhibited. He must keep.
the tablet or staff under his own charge (except as explained in Regulations,.
14, 14a, and 34a), until he reaches the end of the section,, when he must give
it up to the signalman or other duly authorised person.
(c1) Drivers must be extremely careful not to take the tablet or staff beyond
the station at which it ought to be left.
(I) Each tablet or staff has engraved or marked on it the name of the tablet
or staff station at each end of the section to which it applies, and the tablets'.
and staffs of adjoining sections are slightlY different in shape.
Custody and Transference of Tablet or Staff.--(a) Except as provided iw
Regulation 36, the signalman or other person in charge of the tablet or staff'
.working for the time being is the sole person authorised to take a tablet or
staff from, or place it in, the instrument.
(b) Except where some other person is specially appointed to the duty,..
the signalman is the sole person authorised to receive a tablet or staff from,,
and deliver it to the driver, who, whilst it is in his charge, must carry it
the place provided for the purpose. Under no circumstances, except as.
provided in Rules 14, 14a, and 19, must a tablet or staff be transferred from:
one train to another without being passed through the instrument and dealti
with in accordance with these Regulations.
Regulation 9.
it is — necessary for a platelayers' trolley to go through any of the tunnels,
specially enumerated in the Appendix, as coming within the application of
Platelay
this Regulation, the ganger or leading man in charge of the trolley must be
in ers' possession of the staff or tablet ; the trolley must be signalled on the staff
or Ttablet r oinstruments l in accordance with the authorised code, and the signal-.
man at the staff or tablet station in advance must, if the line be clear, as laid
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down in Regulation 5, give permission for the trolley to approach under the,
section g clear o but station or junction blocked signal. Should the trolley after
passing i nthrough
the tunnel be removed from the rails before reaching the
next g staff or tablet station, the ganger must take the staff or tablet to the
signalman at the end of the section nearest to him, and he must inform the,
signalman t h that the trolley is clear of the line, and hand the staff or tablet to him_
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