Re: [NSW]-Question about signal phones

[Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au>]

signal_spotter@my-deja.com wrote:
 
> Is there a convention with signal phones that if it's mounted on the
> actual signal then that signal is 'permissive' (ie may be passed at
> stop under certain conditions, autos and accepts) and if it's mounted
> on a post beside the signal then that signal is 'absolute' (ie may not
> be passed at stop, homes and starters). There seems to be this
> unwritten rule which someone came up with years ago and we've seemed to
> follow but upon speaking to drivers about it, they're response
> was "That's news to me". So somewhere along the line it hasn't filtered
> through. Or has it?

Absolute rubbish. Go and look, and you will see every imaginable
counterexample. Has someone been testing your gullibility all this time?

Eddie