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| Should I have held 4S23 at Carlisle Station? 02/09/2023 at 15:31 #153144 | |
bugsy
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In real life, in this situation, should the signaller have held 4S23 in the platform at Carlisle station? I set the route and then realised that there is the potential for a collision if 4S63 overran signal CE431 as 6M69 was negotiating the junction. Any thoughts? .....  Post has attachments. Log in to view them. Everything that you make will be useful - providing it's made of chocolate. Log in to reply |
| Should I have held 4S23 at Carlisle Station? 02/09/2023 at 15:41 #153145 | |
Stephen Fulcher
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The move is fine, if the risk was too great the overlap would extend over the points. These two trains will be at least a couple of hundred yards apart. Log in to reply |
| Should I have held 4S23 at Carlisle Station? 02/09/2023 at 16:57 #153149 | |
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bugsy
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Stephen Fulcher in post 153145 said:The move is fine, if the risk was too great the overlap would extend over the points. Ok. Thanks. The overlap is much longer than I thought. Everything that you make will be useful - providing it's made of chocolate. Log in to reply |
| Should I have held 4S23 at Carlisle Station? 02/09/2023 at 17:02 #153150 | |
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Stephen Fulcher
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Generally (there will always be exceptions) overlaps will be a minimum of 180 metres. In many cases they’ll be a lot longer.
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| Should I have held 4S23 at Carlisle Station? 03/09/2023 at 06:03 #153164 | |
flabberdacks
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In many cases the signal isn't actually at the end of the track circuit anyway, especially in long automatic sections. So you might have a train which looks like it's right up behind another one, when in reality there's heaps of overlap kept clear.
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