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- From: eoliver@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Eddie Oliver)
- Subject: Re: flashing signals
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:09:39 GMT
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- In article <10104@kralizec.zeta.org.au> craig@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Craig Dewick) writes:
- >
- >You have to be clear on the definitions. And is apparent that some other
- >systems (mainly overseas) use 'flashing' to refer to lights that actually
- >pulsate (ie. they just alter the intensity, but don't turn off during the
- >duty cycle), and vice versa. The NSW definitions are literal.
- >--
-
-
- Exactly! That was what I was on about when I started this particular
- thread some time ago. I suspect that some of us (myself included) have
- allowed the distinction to get lost in the course of the discussion.
-
- I certainly misunderstood your last posting, in that I thought you were denying
- the existence of pulsating main heads as distinct from pulsating turnout bands.
- My apologies for the misinterpretation.
-
- However perhaps we can now get back to the original line of enquiry, which some
- of us (again myself included) have allowed to get lost. I was trying to find
- out - as were others later - a definitive statement of the systems adopted
- around the world. So far we seem only to have concluded:
-
- 1. some railroads do have pulsating signals but may describe them as
- flashing;
- 2. in some cases the pulsations are over such a range of intensity that they
- appear to be truly flashing, but are not really;
- 3. there are also some installations which are genuinely flashing, i.e. with
- full on/off cycles, but these require some special protection to stop
- failures in the full off position;
- 4. there is a fairly wide range of flashing/pulsating speeds, ranging from
- maybe 1 cycle per two or three seconds through to several times per second.
-
- What we haven't yet established is which railroad systems use which varieties.
- We know that New South Wales is pulsating, and it was said that British Rail
- appeared to be pulsating but of type 2 above; can others advise their local
- situation, especially re different US and Canadian systems?
-
- Eddie Oliver
-