Well after my trammie days Andrew.

On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 at 18:26, Andrew C andrewhighriser@...> wrote:

> Potentially dangerous as drivers would be out in the middle of Franklin

> Street manually changing the points. However my memory tells me it was well

> after the closure of the city terminus when the points were moved to a

> safer location.

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> On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 at 19:05, Peter Bruce p1.bruce@...> wrote:

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>> The points at Franklin&Swanston were moved from the centre of the

>> intersection closer to the building or at least the kerb line and hence the

>> line of the curve corresponding altered, cars don’t routinely take the

>> straight nowadays but I think it was altered in the days of the old City

>> terminus so that when the signal box was unattended the points could be

>> changed safely. My memory as to time etc could be faulty, am happy to be

>> corrected of course. My recollection of that and similar locations is that

>> changing the points could be pretty hairy.

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