Also means the blade unit and the drive mechanism isn't being pounded by
road traffic all the time so will have fewer 'maintenance issues'. It's
quite a common technique now internationally to move the actual switch out
of the main traffic flow.

On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 at 15:42, Mal Rowe mal.rowe@...> wrote:

>

> On 29/07/2021 14:05, Jeremy Wainwright wrote:

>

> And on the matter of the movement of cars between Southbank and the south

> end of the 58 route, does that not have something to do with the

> installation of gauntletted points at the entrance to the Peel St shunt?

> And how come? The situation seems far removed from that obtaining at St K

> Jn.

>

> The points were moved out of the intersection in the same way as at St

> Kilda - I suspect mainly for safety reasons.

>

> See: https://tdu.to/m/263755

>

>

> Here's a 'before' pic. You can see that the driver would have to go into

> the middle of the road traffic lane to change the (manual) points.

>

> Mal Rowe - watcher

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