Neat. It's a shame that these diagrams are quite difficult to track
down these days since the Signal Diagrams and Photos website shut
down.

Almost none of the Victorian railway manuals are available, which is in
stark contrast to NSW, where almost everything except Train Order forms
is published on the railsafe website. Both the Driver's Route Knowledge
Diagrams and the WPPD publicly available on the railsafe website if you
know where to look. I suspect though that NSW is an outlier in this
regard, as Queensland doesn't publish much, nor do WA and SA (though
signal diagrams for them can be found via sa-trackandsignal.net).

Regarding the actual track layout, if it were up to me I'd relay it
with a pair of crossovers just down of the junction on both branches,
replace the single- and double- slip points with standard crossovers
rated at 65 km/h, and configure all lines to be bidirectional. Signals
CFD729 and CFD769 are largely redundant. Attached is a quick sketch; I
couldn't be bothered to work out the correct dimensions though I
imagine it would fit just fine. My modifications allow movements from
any track to reach any platform, and vice-versa, maintaining maximum
operational flexibility for a minimum of components. The three
crossovers in red are possibly surplus to requirements, but they
provide a bit of redundancy and avoid potential conflicts.

(I'm aware that the crossovers on the Frankston branch would need to be
curved, but that's a non-issue and Victoria's almost pathalogical
avoidance of them is absurd. Again, if it works in Switzerland it would
work here.)

Robbie

On Tue, 2019-05-14 at 19:24 +1000, 'Richard Youl' via TramsDownUnder
wrote:
> The top portion is the city side of Caulfield station, the lower portion is the Dandenong and Frankston side.

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> As there is trackwork to enable Dandenong trains access to and from the Frankston tracks, access also on the outer side of the station would be somewhat unnecessary.

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> It’s funny what falls off the back of a truck sometimes.

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> Regards,

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