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NSW Railway Safeworking Photos

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Adamstown	1984	The Adamstown to Dudley Junction Staff instrument.
Adamstown	1984	Tyers Block safeworking used for the "Mineral Line" (upper) and Broadmeadow Relief Line (lower).
Bellata	2001	The staff and ticket box for the Bellata - Edgeroi section. The staff is present!
Bellata	2001	The staff and ticket box for the Bellata - Gurley section.
Berry	2008	The staff instrutments for the sections to Nowra and Kiama.
Berry	2008	A ground frame in the yard, used for shunting movements.
Binnaway	2001	The staff holder and ticket box for the Binnaway - Coonabarabran section (the staff is in use).
Binnaway	2001	The staff holder and ticket box for the Binnaway - Premer section (the staff is present).
Binnaway	2001	The staff holder and ticket box for the Binnaway - Merrygoen section (the staff is in use).
Bombo	1986	An integral part of single line rail operation was the exchanging of the staff at a safeworking point. A classic pose is shown here at Bombo in 1986 as the up South Coast Daylight slowly trundles through.
Boorowa	1980	The Boorowa to Galong Staff and Ticket box.
Bowning	1980	The block instruments at Bowning flank the track indictor board; the closest one is for Yass Jct.
Bowral	1980	Interior of Bowral Signal Box showing the block instruments. 1980.
Broadmeadow	1986	Broadmeadow South Box had a Tyers Block Instrument, which was for the Adamstown Relief Line. Note the standard bell instruments.
Bundanoon	2004	The safeworking instruments in the signal box.
Bundanoon	2004	The station diagram and safeworking instrument behind the lever frame.
Bungendore	2007	The electric staff changer contains the staffs for the Queanbeyan to Bungendore and the Bungendore to Tarago sections of the line.
Bungendore	1986	The Bungendore - Tarago Staff & Ticket box. Note the signal box plate dated 1917.
Burren	2007	The three staff boxes inside the staff hut.
Caledonia	1986	The Tyers block instrument in the signal box.
Camurra	2007	A shot of all three Train staff boxes, with two of the staffs in place. The loose key box is in the bottom left of the photo.
Caragabal	1996	One of the staff instruments in the safeworking hut, at Caragabal.
Clandulla	2005	The Ordinary Train Staff for Clandulla - Baal Bone Junction section at Clandulla.
Clandulla	2005	The Miniature Electric Staff Instrument at Clandulla, for the section to Kandos.
Coopernook	1981	A familiar site on the north main line was the use of automatic staff exchangers which were used so as to not slow down the trains. This is ready for a northbound train in 1981.
Crookwell	1980	The Crookwell-Goulburn staff & ticket box 1980.
Culcairn	1980	The staff and ticket boxes for both Holdbrook and Corowa in Culcairn Signal box.
Culcairn	1980	42220 sits in the loop on the down as 42217 thunders by and is about to exchange the staff on the automatic staff exchanger through the next section to Gerogery.
Curlewis	2005	The Miniature Electric Staff Instruments in Curlewis staff room, covering the sections to Breeza and Gunnedah.
Edgeroi	2001	Edgeroi is a staff exchange station, as evidenced by the staff receptacles for the sections to Bellata and Narrabri. Both staffs are absent.
Edgeroi	2001	A track maintence worker consults a log book in the safeworking room at the station.
Emerald Hill	2005	These controls are next to each Home and Home-Starting signal to control entry to and exit from the loop.
Emerald Hill	2007	The staff instruments inside the signal box.
Excelsior	1981	Excelsior had a staff & ticket location as shown in this 1981 picture.
Galong	1980	The Galong staff and ticket box for the Boorowa branch.
Gap	2009	The staff for the section to Spring Ridge.
Gloucester	1982	44220 leading a 44 class goes through the routine staff exchange.
Gulgong	2008	The staff box for the section Gulgong-Dunedoo.
Gulgong	2008	The interior of the staff hut with one of the staff machines, not long before the introduction of CTC.
Harden	1980	Harden North and South had Tyers Block instruments to the last. These old but true tested instruments chimed their message of safe travel for many decades. This is the one in Harden North Box and shows the "Train on line" position.
Harden	1980	The South Box at Harden's Tyers two wire block instrument set at "line blocked".
Harden	1980	This is the array of of instruments on the shelf at Harden South Signal Box. There is the Tyers two wire block and also the standard NSWGR block instruments which never really did oust the ancient Tyers. Also the stiker bell and repeater can be seen.
Henty	1980	The Henty - Rand staff and ticket box.
Henty	1980	A scene long gone, the staffs are in motion as 8017 rumbles through Henty on a north bound freight and using the automatic staff exchanger. 8017 has just collected the staff for Yerong Creek as the one from Culcairn is still swinging on the rams horn collector.
Islington Junction	2005	Various items of safeworking equipment in the box.
Johns River	1981	The staff instrument at Johns River.
Kapooka	1980	This shot taken in 1980 at Kapooka shows a working of bygone days on the south with 42203 which has just changed staffs on the Automatic Staff Exchanger.
Kapooka	1980	Kapooka Signal Box sat off the main road and was rather an isolated box but was an important crossing point. This 1980 photo shows an automatic staff exchanger ready for an up train to Wagga. The staff was placed in the top ring for collection by the locomotive while the bottom "rams horn" took the staff from the Uranquinty section, all at speed.
Kyogle Loop	2007	The staff machine for the section for Kyogle to Loadstone.
Kyogle Loop	2007	One of the staff machines has been placed out of working.
Kyogle Loop	2007	The train register book in the safeworking hut.
Kyogle Loop	2007	The staff hut at Kyogle Loop.
Kywong	1980	The staff and ticket box at the station. One staff covered the whole branch.
Marulan	1980	One of the two sets of block instruments in Marulan Signal Box 1980.
Medway Junction	1980	The block instruments in Medway Junction Box, for Tallong & Marulan.
Medway Junction	1980	Medway Junction's red staff & ticket box for the branch to the Quarry.
Mudgee	1981	The Mudgee - Gulgong Staff & ticket box.
Mudgee	1981	An electric staff instrument inside the signal box.
Oolong	1980	The Pilotman's lock in Oolong Signal Box. This was often used when a pilot was needed for wrong line running or emergency work.
Pangela	1976	The staff is about to be exchanged with an up train at Pangela Signal Box in January 1976.
Queanbeyan	1986	Staff instruments for the the sections that start or end at the location.
Rand	1980	The Staff and Ticket box at Rand still existed 5 years after closure in this 1980 photo.
Rankins Springs	2008	A sempahore signal on a lattice post is still present in the yard.
Stockinbingal	2003	Another view of the level frame and the two staff instruments.
Stockinbingal	2003	A close-up of the staff instrument for the Stockinbingal - Parkes section.
Stockinbingal	2003	A close-up of the staff instrument for the Stockinbingal - Cootamundra West section.
Tallong	1980	Interior of Tallong Signal Box showing the blocks instruments.
Telegraph Point	1982	A close-up view of the automatic staff exchanger which was ready for a north bound freight.
Temora	2004	A close-up of the safeworking instruments behind the lever frame.
Ulan Loop	2008	The staff machines in the Ulan staff hut.
Urana	1980	Urana was a staff exchange station in 1980. Boree Creek has lost its staff station status at this time, as evidenced by the new label.
Uranquinty	1980	Uranquinty was the junction for the Kywong branch which was closed 5 years earlier, but the staff and ticket box still remained in the Signal Box.
Wagga Wagga	1980	The staff instruments to Kapooka (left) & Bomen on the right. 1980.
Walcha Road	2005	Walcha Road - Uralla section Train Staff.
Wellington	1982	A goods service has stopped for the exchange of safeworking tokens.
Werris Creek	2005	The electric staff machine inside the signal box.
Werris Creek	2005	The staff for the short section south to Werris Creek South Box.
Wingello	1980	A 1980 picture showing the interior of Wingello Signal Box showing the block instruments.
Wingen	1979	The automatic staff exchanger has been set up ready for the approaching south-bound train.
Yass Junction	1980	Yass Junction block instruments for the up and down lines to Bowning.
Yass Junction	1980	The Staff and Ticket box for the Yass Town branch at Yass Junction.