Tablelands Information Pack - Issue 1 - 04 Sep ... - Queensland Rail

(#) Steel sleepered track and timber sleepered track with interspersed steel sleepers shall
be regarded as equivalent to timber sleepered track for track stability.
Speed restrictions may also be put in place after maintenance activities in accordance
with QR Safety Standards.
On this system, the design neutral temperature is higher than elsewhere in the State
resulting in less operational constraints at higher air temperatures.
The extent of restriction will depend upon the type of maintenance activity and risk of track
misalignments.
Force Majeure Events will also see the imposition of speed restrictions, the extent and
severity of the restrictions being dependent on the event.
TRACKSIDE DETECTION EQUIPMENT
Dragging Equipment Detectors (DED)
There are no dragging equipment detectors on this System.
Hot Box / Hot Wheel Detectors (HBD/HWD)
There are no Hot Box / Hot Wheel Detectors on this System.
Axle Counters
There are no axle counters used on this System.
Over Height Container Detector and Signal
Located at 8.6 km with associated two aspect Red/Green Signal at 9.9 km on the Cairns
- Redlynch section, to detect containers over 2.65 m in height. Over height containers,
once identified are detached at Redlynch.
WEIGHBRIDGES
The are no weighbridges on this System.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Operator performance is monitored (trains passing selected sites) throughout the system,
with details of performance uploaded to QR’s mainframe based Freight Management
System (FMS), Normanton - Croydon excluded.
Train consist details, wagon and loading details as well as locations are available from
QR’s mainframe based Yard Control System (YCS). Details of all rollingstock passed by
the Rollingstock Authorisation Process are entered into the YCS, preventing the illegal
entry of non-authorised traffic onto the system.
Real-time monitoring of train loading data allows management of overload issues.
TABLELANDS SYSTEM INFORMATION PACK
ISSUE 1 - DATE 04-09-2002
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