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SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS

WEEKLY NOTICES

1952

Interim Listing

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  • Matisa tie tamper - instructions.
  • Absolute Block Signals - rules relating to passing signal at stop.
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  • Calomba - extension of stock siding
  • Murray Bridge - signals - with track diagram
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  • Serviceton line - 600 class engines speed restrictions.
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  • Woodville - loading gauge for motor body traffic
  • Keswick - loading gauge for motor body traffic
  • Mount Gambier - freight timetable.
  • Peterborough Division - location of train control telephones.
  • Adelaide - train departure indicators.
  • Cockburn line - electric staff working Mannahill - Outalpa
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  • Nackara - Paratoo. Automatic electric staff block working.
  • Mitcham - Eden. Signalling.
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  • Quorn line - timetable of limited mixed service.
  • 750 class engines - freight loads for permitted lines.
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  • Tooligie - altered track arrangements.
11
  • Goggles for transportation staff - instructions. Provided free for engine crews where engines are burning Leigh Creek coal.
  • Mount Lofty - Upper Sturt. Arrangements for road bus in event of disruption to service, including the requirement for Upper Sturt passengers of a 15 minute walk to the main road.
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  • 520 class engines - load when working 1 in 45 grades
  • Cooke's Plains - Tailem Bend. Load for 720 and 600 class engines.
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  • Australian "Garratt" locomotives issued to Peterborough Division, and special flat cars for transport of "Garratt" engines over broad gauge.
  • "MacArthur" locomotives for broad-gauge to be known as 740 class.
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  • 520 class engines - load when working 1 in 45 grades - previous advice cancelled.
  • Joint stock passenger cars 7AE and 8AE are now owned by South Australian Railways and reclassified as cars 550 and 551.
17
  • Commendation re treatment of injuries in collision of M.I.C. 118 on South Line on 4th October 1951.
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  • Engines working tender first - outside metropolitan area must only work in emergency.
  • South line - level crossing at 140 miles, 24 chains.
  • Port Lincoln - Cummins line. Removal of siding at 5 miles.
  • Gladstone - handling of wheat from narrow-gauge lines.
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  • Minnipa line - timetable alteration for passenger motor.
  • Narrow-gauge lines - brake instructions for bogie brakevans
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  • Hilra (Penfield line - colour-light signalling).
  • Gang trolleys, section cars. Instructions.
  • Commonwealth Railways - Budd car timetables. Woomera and Kalgoorlie timetables.
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  • Wandana (Penong line) - stop board
  • Port Lincoln - Cummins line. Siding at 5 miles.
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  • South line - freight load for 520 class engines.
  • Littlehampton - track arrangement and diagram.
  • Edwardstown - three-position signalling.
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  • Morphett Vale - reference to turntable to be deleted.
  • Australian "Garratt" locomotives - instructions.
  • Kalangadoo - yard arrangements.
  • Emerson - Edwardstown. Three-position signalling.
25
  • Wanilla (Port Lincoln - Cummins) Level crossing.
  • Port Augusta and Whyalla co-ordinated rail and motor services.
26
  • Lucindale - level crossing
  • Australian "Garratt" locomotives - transport over broad gauge lines.
  • 900 class diesel- electric locomotives - fire extinguishers.
  • Littlehampton - freight in truckloads only.
  • Tarcoola - Budd car service extended to.
  • Paper drinking cups for passenger cars and railcars - instructions.
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  • Dry Creek Marshalling Yard - signalling
  • Brake equipment alterations - 900, 350, 620, 520, 720, 750,740 class locomotives.
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  • Wandana - instructions
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  • Diesel electric locomotives - must be 5 miles per hour below speed limits on curves with restrictions.
  • Penola - temporary main line deviation.
  • Railway telegraph procedure - Australian standardisation - 4 pages of instructions.
30
  • Peake - additional sheep yards
  • Kalangadoo - switchstands
  • "Overland" express not to exceed 50 miles per hour between Adelaide and Serviceton, when hauled by diesel electric locomotives.
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  • Commonwealth Railways - Port Pirie to Port Augusta, Woomera and Kalgoorlie: new timetable.
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  • Commonwealth Railways: Port Pirie - Port Augusta timetable.
  • Whyalla - co-ordinated rail and road service.
33
  • Shunting with tractors - instructions.
  • Mile End freight yard - instructions with yard diagram.
  • Iron Knob and Kimba - co-ordinated rail and road service.
34
  • Pinnaroo - Ouyen: railcar timetable alteration.
35
  • Mile End Freight Yard - instructions.
  • Marree Station destroyed by fire.
36
  • Mr. C. H. Fidock appointed Secretary.
  • Adelaide to Perth - restoration of train services.
  • 700 class engines - instructions re emergency repairs to compressor air pipe.
  • Peterborough - track arrangements and diagram.
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  • Ouyen - Pinnaroo: diesel railcar service.
  • Uniforms - only black ties permitted - light colour or multi-coloured ties will not be permitted.
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  • Excessive smoke from locomotives - instructions to contain problem, particularly in suburban areas, and in relation to oil-burning locomotives.
  • Nairne - signalling and track diagram.
  • Dry Creek - new level crossing at Magazine Road.
  • Diesel electric locomotives not to turn on triangles or work on secondary tracks.
  • Mile End and Woodville - motor body loading gauges.
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  • A monster Christmas Party for the children of railwaymen will be held 20th December and the support of ALL railwaymen is confidently anticipated.
  • Port Augusta and Whyalla rail and road motor co-ordinated services.
  • Hendon - stopping of trains at Botting Street crossing.
  • Glenroy - temporary narrow-gauge deviation.
  • "Overland" new timetable from 13th October.
  • Iron Knob and Kimba - co-odinated rail and road motor service.
  • Naracoorte - Kalangadoo open as broad gauge line 24th October.
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  • Naracoorte - Kalangadoo: instructions and track diagrams.
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  • "Overland" joint-stock cars - instructions for filling water tanks.
  • Naracoorte - Kalangadoo - broad gauge instructions.
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  • 900 class diesel electric locomotives - stabling times and instructions.
  • 900 class diesel electric locomotives - train examiner's safety key.
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  • Stop indicators at provisional stopping places.
  • Naracoorte - new siding near.
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  • Oil temperature for oil burning locomotives
  • Naracoorte - new siding near.
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  • Naracoorte and Kalangadoo - Broad-gauge engine loads.
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