Re: The railway thread
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Flags & Dets were put on the track to stop any trains coming through during track maintenance.
You would plant the metal flag 1km ( if memory serves me) from the work site & 3 Dets 100mts apart on the work side to alert us & driver.
Communication for us to get approx train time etc was via a box type phone, that could be hooked onto the overhead wires .... pretty crude! this allowed communication between Parkston W.A. & Pt. Augusta S.A..... anyone hooked up between there was privy to anyone using it.
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