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4 ' C u An Stag anci Ticket System—Continued.
Custody of
staff or ticket.
When staff is
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engine driver.
6. The person in charge of the staff working for the time being is
the sole person authorised, to receive and deliver the staff or ticket.
7.—When a train is ready to start from a station and no second
train is intended to follow before the staff will be required for a train
in the opposite direction, the person in charge of the staff working
must give the staff to the engine driver or fireman, and the driver will
then place, it in a safe position on the engine.
NOTE.---In the case of steam autocars the duties of receiving or
exchanging the stall, ticket, or tablet, as the case may be, must be performed
by the engine driver or fireman when the engine is leading, and
by the driver or guard when the car is leading. The fireman or guard
must immediately hand over the staff, ticket, or tablet to the driver. In
the case of electric autocars, guards are likewise authorised to perform this
duty, but must at once hand over the staff, ticket or tablet to the driver.
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must be given by the person in charge of the staff working to the enginedriver
or fireman of the first train, the staff for the section being shown
to him, and so on with any other train except the last, the staff itself
being given to the engine driver or fireman of the last train, as directed
in the preceding rule. If the firewau receives the ticket, he must at once
hand it to the driver. The person who hands the ticket to the enginedriver
or fireman must satisfy himself that the train has gone with
such ticket before he allows another train to follow. After the staff
has been sent away no other train must, under any
, leave c ithe r c station u m s tto afolloW n c ein s the , same direction until the staff for that
section has been returned.
NoTE.—See special instructions following paragraph 7 in regard to
Autocars.
(b) Trains not carrying the staff must carry the 'usual train following
signal, except in the case of the last train at night. If the
extra tail lamp cannot be put on without the train being stopped, it
must be put on when the first stop is made. This rule does not apply
on the following sections of the line :—Kirkby Stephen and Appleby,
Barnard Castle and Middleton-in-Teesdale, York Foss Islands Branch.
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Staff or ticket .(c) The station master or person in charge of the staff working must
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to driver going consider it his first duty' to. deal with the train staff or ticket on arrival
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until one train direction from of the train, and at passing places must satisfy himself that the train
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driver or fireman about to travel in the opposite direction.
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driver 9 . No train must be permitted to leave a station until the engine
not until he has driver has received the proper staff or ticket for that section of the line
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received the over which he is about to travel, and he must not take the staff or ticket
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staff or ticket.
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time being, except in accordance with the note to Clause 7 above,
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whereby the fireman or guard as the case may be, will take the staff,
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ticket, or tablet, and hand it to the driver. After receiving the staff
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or ticket he must not start until the proper signals have been exhibited,
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and, when with a train, not until a signal has also been given by the
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guard. On arriving at the station to which the staff or ticket extends
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such staff or ticket must immediately be given up to the person in
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be given up. by the first train carrying the staff to the issuing staff station, attached
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