Into the 1980s, the crossings were controlled by manually operating swinging railway gates, operated by hand using rods and cables from the signal boxes, and the signal box also controlled the tram signals and derailment points, also very manually controlled. Boom barriers replaced the gates but still everything was manually controlled from the signal box, and I expect at the remaining two rail crossings by trams while now much more electrically operated, are still a very much manual operation. The signaller will also now have control of traffic lights.
Andrew.
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 at 17:38, Mal Rowe <mal.rowe@gmail.com> wrote:
--On 27/04/2025 17:15, 'David Batho' via TramsDownUnder wrote:
Thank you to every one for your replies. Now to my next, taxonomical, question: is it a railway or a tramway signal?! (It would have been operated by the railway signalman, I presume, or operated automatically when the gates went down, but applied to a tramway.)
I'll leave the taxonomy questions to others. I have enough trouble trying to separate Railway - Tramway and Light Railway!
Here's a pic of the lever frame at Kooyong in 2004, when the crossing was still manually controlled.
Perhaps one of the signal gurus on the list may be able to tell us which lever did what.
Mal Rowe - who once applied for a job as a signalling engineer.
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