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Signalling in New Zealand was based on British practice for 60 years until about 1922, when it became "essentially indigenous" – partly British with two-aspect mechanical signalling and partly American with automatic three-aspect signalling using so-called '"speed' indicators. [2] The Petone signal box at the Petone railway station, 1952-2013
The first railway in New Zealand was the short Ferrymead Railway from Christchurch in 1863 (see NZ Rail 150), but laying of new lines was slow until the Vogel Era when some thousand miles (1,600 km) of track was laid in seven years from 1874. Lines were initially basic, with improvements made as traffic increased (in the American pattern).
Railway signalling in New Zealand; D. Double line automatic signalling; T. Tyer's Electric Train Tablet This page was last edited on 8 June 2022, at 05:29 (UTC). ...
Semaphore to CTC: Signalling and train working in New Zealand, 1863–1993. Wellington: New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society. ISBN 0-908573-76-6. Vanns, Michael A (1997): An Illustrated History of Signalling. Ian Allan Publishing, Shepperton, England.
Tyer's Electric Train Tablet system is a form of railway signalling for single line railways used in several countries; it was first devised in Great Britain by engineer Edward Tyer after the Thorpe rail accident of 1874, which left 21 people dead. [1]
Rail transport in New Zealand is an integral part of New Zealand's transport network, with a nationwide network of 4,375.5 km (2,718.8 mi) of track linking most major cities in the North and South Islands, connected by inter-island rail and road ferries.
Signalling at Petone is future-proofed for conversion to a fifth system, Automatic Signalling Rules (ASR). The Wairarapa Line had a number of lasts for railway signalling in New Zealand: Semaphore Signal on an operational line, these were decommissioned in 1996 however the masts (poles) remained in place until July 2014
Double Line Automatic Signalling is a form of railway signalling used on the majority of double line sections in New Zealand. Double Line Automatic Signalling uses track circuits to detect the presence of trains in sections broken up by intermediate signals .