![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Let's say a word about manual points :)
Jun. 15th, 2009 04:22 pmThis small article has eventually grown as an explanation for this YouTube movie, because this amount of text definitely isn't going to fit 500-char limit of YouTube comment, and is even too large and needs pictures to be text info at the video on YouTube. So, there will be only href to here :)
(Sorry for my English; if there are serious grammar or translation mistakes, corrections are welcomed).
So, here is Staraya Toropa station.
This station is one of only few stations remained in Russia with manual points and the so called "key dependence" route locking system (but this system was virtually the most common one 50-100 years ago).
It's also a typical example of small station of this type. Here I'll try to explain a basic principle of working with this system.
( Read more... )
And here is another station with manual points and key dependence system, perhaps the largest such station in Russia and maybe in all the former USSR at all: Velikiye Luki. It has not only 2, but (I suppose) more than 10 "signalboxes".
In this summer it's planned to make its points electrically controlled, as also on the other large "manual" station in 30 km to the west - Novosokolniki. A lot of new train and shunting signals are ready to be installed for this new system, in Novosokolniki some relatively rarely used points are already eqipped with electric motorized drives instead of manual levers and temporarily locked by simple padlocks.
So, this video may be regarded as farewell to the largest key-dependence installation in the country.
(Sorry for my English; if there are serious grammar or translation mistakes, corrections are welcomed).
So, here is Staraya Toropa station.
This station is one of only few stations remained in Russia with manual points and the so called "key dependence" route locking system (but this system was virtually the most common one 50-100 years ago).
It's also a typical example of small station of this type. Here I'll try to explain a basic principle of working with this system.
( Read more... )
And here is another station with manual points and key dependence system, perhaps the largest such station in Russia and maybe in all the former USSR at all: Velikiye Luki. It has not only 2, but (I suppose) more than 10 "signalboxes".
In this summer it's planned to make its points electrically controlled, as also on the other large "manual" station in 30 km to the west - Novosokolniki. A lot of new train and shunting signals are ready to be installed for this new system, in Novosokolniki some relatively rarely used points are already eqipped with electric motorized drives instead of manual levers and temporarily locked by simple padlocks.
So, this video may be regarded as farewell to the largest key-dependence installation in the country.
