ToledoRailfan wrote:I came across this interesting setup! Interesting how they used a yoda alarm (or something similar) instead of electronic bells! Kind of cool but also annoying at the same time. It would be interesting to see an Australian crossing with the same yoda alarms used in the United Kingdom, I wonder if there are any?
Nope, there are no Barker Technic E-Bells in the United Kingdom, Present day setups are usually E2S Alarms or Clifford and Snell Model Y03 Yodalarms.
Re: Australian Railroad Crossing Signals
Posted: Fri May 05, 2017 2:17 pm
by ToledoRailfan
NathanFromEngland wrote:
ToledoRailfan wrote:I came across this interesting setup! Interesting how they used a yoda alarm (or something similar) instead of electronic bells! Kind of cool but also annoying at the same time. It would be interesting to see an Australian crossing with the same yoda alarms used in the United Kingdom, I wonder if there are any?
Nope, there are no Barker Technic E-Bells in the United Kingdom, Present day setups are usually E2S Alarms or Clifford and Snell Model Y03 Yodalarms.
I was said that it would be interesting to see an Australian crossing with the same yoda alarms used in the United Kingdom. Hence why I said "I wonder if there are any".
Re: Australian Railroad Crossing Signals
Posted: Fri May 05, 2017 4:37 pm
by TrickyMario7654
Username1 wrote:Anyway I mentioned on here about a month ago that the bells at Corrgian road were replaced. Well it turns out that they were replaced with type 3's which is rare! https://youtu.be/hNnro6uka_4
Also one of the e-bells at Parkdale has had a black cloth duct taped around it. Strange. I wonder why they did that?
Metro is really being stupid, putting brand new e-bells on a crossing being removed.
Username1 wrote:Anyway I mentioned on here about a month ago that the bells at Corrgian road were replaced. Well it turns out that they were replaced with type 3's which is rare! https://youtu.be/hNnro6uka_4
Also one of the e-bells at Parkdale has had a black cloth duct taped around it. Strange. I wonder why they did that?
Metro is really being stupid, putting brand new e-bells on a crossing being removed.
This was before Daniel Andrews was premier and probably long before there were plans to remove the crossing.
Re: Australian Railroad Crossing Signals
Posted: Fri May 05, 2017 4:47 pm
by TrickyMario7654
ToledoRailfan wrote:
TrickyMario7654 wrote:
Username1 wrote:Anyway I mentioned on here about a month ago that the bells at Corrgian road were replaced. Well it turns out that they were replaced with type 3's which is rare! https://youtu.be/hNnro6uka_4
Also one of the e-bells at Parkdale has had a black cloth duct taped around it. Strange. I wonder why they did that?
Metro is really being stupid, putting brand new e-bells on a crossing being removed.
This was before Daniel Andrews was premier and probably long before there were plans to remove the crossing.
No it was done last month, the crossing still had hybrid bells earlier this year.
Re: Australian Railroad Crossing Signals
Posted: Fri May 05, 2017 4:52 pm
by ToledoRailfan
TrickyMario7654 wrote:
ToledoRailfan wrote:
TrickyMario7654 wrote:
Username1 wrote:Anyway I mentioned on here about a month ago that the bells at Corrgian road were replaced. Well it turns out that they were replaced with type 3's which is rare! https://youtu.be/hNnro6uka_4
Also one of the e-bells at Parkdale has had a black cloth duct taped around it. Strange. I wonder why they did that?
Metro is really being stupid, putting brand new e-bells on a crossing being removed.
This was before Daniel Andrews was premier and probably long before there were plans to remove the crossing.
No it was done last month, the crossing still had hybrid bells earlier this year.
I was referring to Parkers Road.
Re: Australian Railroad Crossing Signals
Posted: Fri May 05, 2017 5:22 pm
by TrickyMario7654
ToledoRailfan wrote:
TrickyMario7654 wrote:
ToledoRailfan wrote:
TrickyMario7654 wrote:
Username1 wrote:Anyway I mentioned on here about a month ago that the bells at Corrgian road were replaced. Well it turns out that they were replaced with type 3's which is rare! https://youtu.be/hNnro6uka_4
Also one of the e-bells at Parkdale has had a black cloth duct taped around it. Strange. I wonder why they did that?
Metro is really being stupid, putting brand new e-bells on a crossing being removed.
This was before Daniel Andrews was premier and probably long before there were plans to remove the crossing.
No it was done last month, the crossing still had hybrid bells earlier this year.
I was referring to Parkers Road.
Parkers Road isn't being removed.
Re: Australian Railroad Crossing Signals
Posted: Fri May 05, 2017 5:41 pm
by ToledoRailfan
TrickyMario7654 wrote:
ToledoRailfan wrote:
TrickyMario7654 wrote:
ToledoRailfan wrote:
TrickyMario7654 wrote:
Username1 wrote:Anyway I mentioned on here about a month ago that the bells at Corrgian road were replaced. Well it turns out that they were replaced with type 3's which is rare! https://youtu.be/hNnro6uka_4
Also one of the e-bells at Parkdale has had a black cloth duct taped around it. Strange. I wonder why they did that?
Metro is really being stupid, putting brand new e-bells on a crossing being removed.
This was before Daniel Andrews was premier and probably long before there were plans to remove the crossing.
No it was done last month, the crossing still had hybrid bells earlier this year.
I was referring to Parkers Road.
Parkers Road isn't being removed.
Re: Australian Railroad Crossing Signals
Posted: Wed May 10, 2017 8:43 am
by McK&H.Aust
Just returned from a visit to northern NSW with the following sightings. As is becoming more common these days, most of them involve the removal of older equipment.
At Quirindi, this crossing at Nowland St has received new signals https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-31.500 ... 312!8i6656
This was one of the few remaining crossings to still have Harmon gate mechs. The new signals have WCH gate mechs, United Group lights and WCH e-bells. The previous Westinghouse hybrid bells were programed to ring while the gates were rising, but the e-bells now adopt the normal NSW practice of shutting off when the gates begin to rise.
Sadly these classic signals at Uralla have been replaced. https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-30.621 ... 312!8i6656
The four old signals have been replaced by just two signals with the usual front and rear facing lights. The lights are United Group, while the new crossing now has two WCH e-bells instead of the single teardrop bell.
McK&H.Aust wrote:Just returned from a visit to northern NSW with the following sightings. As is becoming more common these days, most of them involve the removal of older equipment.
At Quirindi, this crossing at Nowland St has received new signals https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-31.500 ... 312!8i6656
This was one of the few remaining crossings to still have Harmon gate mechs. The new signals have WCH gate mechs, United Group lights and WCH e-bells. The previous Westinghouse hybrid bells were programed to ring while the gates were rising, but the e-bells now adopt the normal NSW practice of shutting off when the gates begin to rise.
Sadly these classic signals at Uralla have been replaced. https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-30.621 ... 312!8i6656
The four old signals have been replaced by just two signals with the usual front and rear facing lights. The lights are United Group, while the new crossing now has two WCH e-bells instead of the single teardrop bell.
Kind of cool but also annoying at the same time. It would be interesting to see an Australian crossing with the same yoda alarms used in the United Kingdom, I wonder if there are any?
