general instructions. - Limit Of Shunt

Special Instructions applicable at Particu;ar Places.—Continued 2 2 1
Harrogate Goods Station.—Continued.
When a train is standing at the " Stop " signal, the Dragon Junction
signalman must not lower the " Starting" signal for another train to proceed
in the direction of the Goods Yard until it has been brought nearly to
a stand ; and when the signal has been lowered, the driver must proceed
cautiously as far as the line is clear.
During foggy weather and snowstorms, the Groundman at Dragon Junction
Signal box mnst render assistance to the signalman with trains entering
and leaving the Goods Yard.
ARTHINGTON.—TRAP SIDING, SOUTH JUNCTION.
Guards in charge of short trains from Ilkley to Arthington must accompany
their trains when being shunted from the up to the down branch
platform to attend to the trap points on the up main line on their being
shunted from the up to the down platform.
Trains must not be allowed to pass the home signals as far as the advance
signal until the tunnel section is clear.
ARTHINGTON.—HORSE BOXES TO DETACH OR TRANSFER.
Horse boxes and other vehicles by up trains for Arthington, or requiring
transfer at that station, to be attached next to the engine.
NIDD VALLEY LIGHT RAILWAY.—NORTH EASTERN STOCK
WORKING OVER.
North Eastern and East Coast four and six-wheeled vehicles and bogie
vehicles not exceeding 52 feet in length over headstocks can work over the
Nidd Valley Light Railway as far as Lofthouse, but they must not in any
circumstances be accepted for places beyond Lofthouse. The stock may,
if required, be worked over the crossover roads into the spare platform lines
at Wath, Ramsgill, and the Nidd Valley Light Railway Company's Pateley
Bridge Station, and it may also be placed in the Warehouse line at Lofthouse.
When, however, North Eastern or East Coast stock is run through
any of the crossover roads a speed of 5 miles per hour must not be exceeded.
The Warehouse lines at Wath and Ramsgill are not suitable for carriage
stock and North Eastern or East Coast carriages must not be placed therein.
No train exceeding more than six North Eastern six-wheeled vehicles,
34 feet over headstocks, or an equivalent length in bogie stock, can work
over the Light Railway, as there is not room at Lofthouse to run round a
greater number of vehicles.
North Eastern engines are not allowed to travel on the Light Railway.
PATELEY BRIDGE—TRANSFER OF LOADED PASSENGER VEHICLES
FROM THE NIDD VALLEY LIGHT RAILWAY TO THE
NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY AND VICE VERSA.
When loaded passenger carriages are being transferred from the Nidd
Valley Light Railway to the North Eastern Railway or vice versa, the
operation must be personally conducted by the Station Master at Pateley
Bridge
speed.
(ME.), and the carriages must not travel at more than a walking
(0.13.T. 383).