Another busy weekend for the Signalling and Telegraph Team (S&T) at the Aviemore South Ground Frame. They suffered similar weather to the PWay Squad on the Saturday at the Summit but we don't have any pictures to record how bad it was!
Georgie was on site on Saturday afternoon with Nathan as the loop points were needing a bit of heat treatment as they were not quite up to S&T Departmental exacting standards. This was done successfully and switch rail now closes satisfactorily against the stock rail.
The new Signal at Aviemore Station worked by
Number 5 lever on the Station South Ground Frame has been wired up to interface with Network Rail. The group involved with this were Daniel Nimmo, Dave
Bird, Mike Insch, Dave Dow and Rob Law all shown in the photo beside the ground frame and under Stephen
Muirhead’s supervision
The ground works for new signalling cables and
the telephone cable for direct communication with the NR Signaller at Inverness
have been completed. The fitting of the phone and
termination of the cable will be
carried out by Siemens. You can see the
concrete base for the phone to the right of the ground frame.
Following completion of the work on Saturday
we were able to start setting up the detection of 7
points, for the new signal. This signal is
route selected by means of the floating
wheel assembly visible in the foreground
below.
The circuit controllers on number 4
lever, which works the ‘additional control’
(also known as a ‘slot’) on the NR signal coming from the South and number 5 lever which works our signal has been fitted by
the team, while Rob Law installed
the interconnecting cables between the
NR disconnection box, the Strathspey apparatus case, the signal and the
Ground Frame.
Thanks to Robert & Robyn Law for photos/info and Stephen for editing,
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