John Webb wrote:and even a concise explanation of tokenless block working between Bewdley South and Kidderminster.
Russell Maiden wrote:It's actually Acceptance Lever working - trains are offered and accepted (or not as the case may be) rather than just being described, with the Acceptance Lever at the box in advance being reversed to 'accept' a train, but no conventional block instruments as used with Direction Levers.
Russell Maiden wrote:It's actually Acceptance Lever working
John Webb wrote:Ah! I wasn't listening quite closely enough to the programme - on replaying it the driver, as they pass Bewdley South box, actually says that they are not picking up a token as there is another system "Tokenless block by Acceptance Lever. It's all done electrically." covering the section from Bewdley to Kidderminster.
Russell Maiden wrote:The latest incarnation of this method of working single lines may well be 'TCB on Single Lines', but, being a heritage railway we use heritage terminology. The basis for the SVR's Acceptance Lever working is the BR(WR) Circulars XR 579, headed 'Regulations for Train Signalling on Single Lines worked by Acceptance Levers', and XR 580, 'Single Lines worked by Acceptance Levers - Instructions to Trainmen and Others', dated June 1961.
Russell Maiden wrote:The latest incarnation of this method of working single lines may well be 'TCB on Single Lines', but, being a heritage railway we use heritage terminology. The basis for the SVR's Acceptance Lever working is the BR(WR) Circulars XR 579, headed 'Regulations for Train Signalling on Single Lines worked by Acceptance Levers', and XR 580, 'Single Lines worked by Acceptance Levers - Instructions to Trainmen and Others', dated June 1961.
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