general instructions. - Limit Of Shunt

Regulations for Working Single Lines of Railway
by Train Staff and Ticket.
1. A train staff or train staff ticket must be carried with each train, tilthe°r
and no train must be permitted to leave any staff station with a train carried. No
staff ticket, unless the staff for that portion of the line over which it t
is to travel is then at the station. a t the station.
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). 2. All points on a single line that become facing points to trains Points to be
;1 running in either direction, if not interlocked, must either be padlocked :).edurioelkye
1or
securely held by hand for the safe passage of trains.
:ss 3. (a) The danger signal must always be kept exhibited at all the lyorking of
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lines, except when it is necessary to lower or turn them off for a train
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to pass ; and, before any signal is lowered or turned off, care must be
taken to ascertain that the line on which the train is about to run is
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clear and properly protected.
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(b) At places which are not staff stations, or block telegraph signal
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boxes, the all right signal must, unless lestructions to the contrary are
issued, be kept exhibited at the fixed signals (where such signals are
iprovided)
except when required to be placed at danger for the pro-
gtection
of trains having to stop in the section, or any other obstruction
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may exist on any running line which the signals are intended to
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protect.
l (c) When trains which have to pass each other are approaching a
s staff station in opposite directions, the signals in both directions must be
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kept at danger, and when the train which has to be first admitted into
the station has been brought to a stand, or where there are over-run
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sidings nearly to a stand, the home signal applicable to such train may
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lowered to allow it to ,draw forward to the station or to the starting
tsignal,
and, after it has again come to a stand and the signalman has
aseen
that the line on which the other train will arrive is quite clear, the
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necessary signals for that train may also be lowered.
f 4. (a) Permission must not be ,given for a train to approach from the Train oachin
sopposite
end of the section when there is any obstruction upon the VO
tPsingle
line.. e n d of section.
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(b) The single line must not be fouled after permission has been
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given opposite for a train to approach from the opposite end of the section.
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(c) An engine-driver must not under any circumstances foul the D
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line for shunting purposes unless he has received the authority C4h,tc
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the signalman to do so. s i g n a l m a n ' s
authority.
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5. ver No train i must shunt for another train to pass unless at a train Tfain
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station, except that when under special circumstances a train carry- another%xcept
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a train staff ticket cannot arrive at the next staff station before the at n taff station.
d following train which carries the staff, then the drivers must exchange o
the staff and ticket, except in cases where both trains are travelling with t
btickets,
when the tickets must be exchanged, so that under all circum- t
lstances
the last train shall carry the staff. The stations at which this o
omay
be done are shown in the list of Single Lines as "
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Preceding pages 257 to 275. P l a c e s . "
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