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Old December 16th 13, 05:59 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Arthur Figgis Arthur Figgis is offline
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Default Tramlin tracks question
On 16/12/2013 17:13, Jarle Hammen Knudsen wrote:
Take a look at theTramlink tracks near Church Street tram stop at this
Google Streetview link: http://goo.gl/maps/3w0p7

What is the advatage of having the point so far from the curve?

IIRC it keeps the moving parts out of the way of road traffic. It maybe
also has some signalling benefit, but I've forgotten what if anything
that is.

If you really want to know you could try the Tramlink e-mail group on Yahoo.
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