I only went up it once as Flinders Street A Box and the viaduct signals
never had its own Electrical Fitter, well not in my time at the Flinders
Street district. All maintenance was done by weekend 'maintenance shifts',
an operation where about 7 or 8 suburban Electrical Fitters and their
assistants would get a weekend overtime shift. The worst part about the
climb was getting onto the ladder from the track; not unsafe but certainly
a bit nervy. Once upon the bridge it was just like being on any signal
bridge except it was a further distance from ground level. I once spent 10
days during the Royal Melbourne Show period and we only had one little
problem in that time. The rest of the time was spent being on call on the
operating floor with many magazines read, a bit of photography both from
the box and walking across the Yarra River bridge, and best of all learning
a portion of the frame - the Ports and 'Sallys' section. It was a busy
busy place keeping the three signalmen and the block 'boy' on their toes.
The one thing I can't reconcile was the complete lack of photography inside
the box; no pictures were taken of the frame especially seeing it was one
of two boxes in Victoria with levers on both sides of the building, Dudley
Street was the only other.
Here are a few from that time. Apologies for there being no trams but they
are electric suburban trains -- well almost.
On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 at 12:30, Mark Skinner emessk@...> wrote:
> Compared to working on footboards of tramcars though...
>
> On Sun, 17 Oct 2021, 10:42 am Bob Pearce, probert@...> wrote:
>
>> Nice pics indeed.
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m not sure that OH&S or Worksafe or whatever name is being used this
>> week, would be thrilled about someone having to climb up and work on the
>> gantry just in front of the semaphore gantry.
>>
>> There seem to be a lot of quite tall and vertical ladders on that thing –
>> not for the faint hearted I suspect.
>>
>>
>>
>> Certainly not this little black duck anyway.
>>
>> Bob in Perth, who used to climb such creations in a past working life.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:*tramsdownunder@... tramsdownunder@...>
>> *On Behalf Of *Andrew Cook
>> *Sent:* Saturday, 16 October 2021 2:15 PM
>> *To:* TramsDownUnder tramsdownunder@...>
>> *Subject:* [TramsDownUnder] Re: More snaps from World War II.
>>
>>
>>
>> Note the old-style helmets on the coppers.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Andrew Cook.
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