Arthur Figgis wrote in
o.uk:

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.

You may be right, but in that location it looks like the diverge point is
on a trams-only bit of road.

There is a cross street beween the points and the diverge point. If a tram
got to the diverge point and had to stop because the points were set the
wrong way, then it looks like it would block the cross street. Maybe
that's a factor. Or not.

Peter

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