general instructions. - Limit Of Shunt

Staff or Tablet Stations, Sections, Passing Places, and t Preceding Places, and
Special Instructions with regard thereto.
These limes are worked in accordance with the Regulations for Train Signalling
by Block Telegraph System on Single Lines of Railway ; and under the
Train Staff, or Train Staff and Ticket System, or under the Electric Train
Staff System, or under the Electric Train Tablet System, except where
stated to the contrary.
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Single Lines on which Passenger Trains run.
tSee Regulation 5, Single Line Regulations for working by Train Staff
and Ticket, page 3.
Special Instructions to be observed at Passing Places 7—
same time at " Line Clear," except as shown in the " Remarks "
column and then under Clause b " Regulation 4 of the Block
Telegraph Regulations.
,(2).--Trains not conveying passengers may be accepted from opposite directions
under Regulation 5 of the Block Telegraph Regulations where they
cannot be accepted at " Line Clear," unless the use of regulation
5 is prohibited.
(3).—Where trains are allowed to pass esach other, and they cannot be accepted
from opposite directions at the same time, the first train must be
drawn clear on to the loop line, or shunted clear of the running line
before the other is allowed to leave the next Block Station.
NOTES.—Passing Places are denoted thus :—*
The term " Freight Trains" means all trains not conveying passengers.
STAFF OR TARIM
STATIONS AND
SECTIONS.
REMARKS.
(Also see pares. 1, 2, and 3, above).
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wAlnwick
and Olds tream.
eALNWICK
NORTH
d AND *EDLINGHAM
t (Electric train staff
• with Green
o handle).
Edlingbam.
- two freight trains may pass each other at
Edlingham. Owing to the gradient, no train
One is to be accepted by Edlingham from Whit-
p tingham a s s eunless n the station lines are clear
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O *WHITTINGHAM.
(Electric train staff
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with Red handle).
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*WmTTINGnAm AND
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*HEDGELEY.
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N with Blue
fG
handle).
g up e r to the starting signal. Any train stopping
to shunt must be brought to a stand within
a the nsafety
points in the loop, which must
d then be placed in the run-off position, arid
no shunting must, under any circumstances
o be done n outside these points. (O. 5092).
e Whittingham—Passonger or freight trains may
f pass r each e other at Whittingham.
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t Hedgeley. ,
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two freight trains may pass each other at
Hedgeley.
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Persons authorised
to receive a tablet
staff or ticket from
or deliver it to
the driver.
Signalman or Porter
Signalman at Ainwick
North.
Station Master or
Porter Signalman
at Edlingham.
Station Master or
Porter Signalman
at Whittingharn.
Station Master or
Porter Signalman
at Hedgeley.