Thanks Hal,
Here's a snap from nearly 15 years ago showing PMTT 84 crossing the
tramway square.
Mal Rowe - who enjoyed that day
On 28/04/2025 18:00, Hal Cain wrote:
> The signalling diagram shows the railway in 1926 when it was still a
> single line; maybe that was when the catch points and the signals for
> trams were installed.
>
> According to the article in Wikipedia
> <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kooyong_railway_station>,
> electrification of the railway occurred in March 1922.There must have
> been provision for the signalman to switch the electric supply to the
> crossing square before 1926, but perhaps there were no catch points;
> or maybe the railway gates were not interlocked until 1926. The
> railway line was duplicated from Kooyong to Gardiner in 1955, Kooyong
> to Heyington in 1957, but I don't remember which year the tramway
> square was rebuilt as double track. The diagram in Vicsig
> <
https://vicsig.net/infrastructure/location/Kooyong> shows what each
> signal lever worked in 2007. The striped levers control the tramway
> signals and catch points.
>
> Hal Cain
>
>
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