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"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
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On 9 May 2005, PhilD wrote:
asdf wrote:

Don't know when, but I do know that the singling
involved leaving the other track in situ.

Sounds like a rather Zen form of singling! What was the point?

Sprung?

Seriously, the point is reduced maintenance cost.

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Phil D.:
... the singling involved leaving the other track in situ.

Tom Anderson:
Sounds like a rather Zen form of singling! What was the point?

John Rowland:
... Seriously, the point is reduced maintenance cost.

Specifically, in some cases the point is no points!
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Phil D.:
... the singling involved leaving the other track in situ.

Tom Anderson:
Sounds like a rather Zen form of singling! What was the point?

John Rowland:
... Seriously, the point is reduced maintenance cost.

Mark Brader:
Specifically, in some cases the point is no points!

So 'singling' in this case amounted to 'instructing the maintenance staff
to ignore one of the tracks'? I have to admit, it is an *extremely*
cost-effective way of doing it.

tom

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On Tue, 10 May 2005 00:01:09 -0000, (Mark Brader) wrote:

Phil D.:
... the singling involved leaving the other track in situ.

Tom Anderson:
Sounds like a rather Zen form of singling! What was the point?

John Rowland:
... Seriously, the point is reduced maintenance cost.

But wouldn't they have to go to the trouble of resignalling it?
(Unless one line was already bidirectionally signalled.)
Although, I suppose maintenance costs are ongoing whereas resignalling
only needs to be done once.

Incidentally, does the line still have the semaphore signals it had 15
years ago?

Specifically, in some cases the point is no points!

Couldn't they just remove any crossovers? That way (I think) there'd
be roughly the same number of points anyway - you'd have extra points
around Greenford, but you wouldn't need the ones where the lines
join/split.

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asdf wrote:

Incidentally, does the line still have the semaphore signals it had
15 years ago?

Yup. Greenford East Signal Box is still present and still has
semaphores, fully plated with code GE. Some rumours have gone around
that when the site is finally resignalled with colour lights, it will
be transferred to Slough New IECC.