Talk:Hampton Loade

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Use of platforms 1 and 2

If the signal box is manned and a southbound train is not crossing, will it always go through Platform 1, Platform 2, or is it at the signalman's discretion?

A question I posed some years ago, mainly answered by Patrick's (and Will's) recent update. The move will always be through platform 2 unless the signalman opts to switch the box out and allow the movement through platform 1 on a long section token (Bridgnorth - Highley).
I had seen this done on occasion and wondered why. Talking to a signalman at Arley, he suggested this was probably to re-balance the tokens (if for example a loco goes north while HL is switched out and back when it is switched in, you move a long token from HY to BH, and short tokens from BH to HL and HL to HY. If done too many times you eventually end up with a shortage of one type of token at all three boxes, so you temporarily close the HL box for one or more movements to reverse the process. That is very much 'as I understand it' and it would be good if a signalling expert could confirm).--Robin (talk) 16:46, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Sundry formatting

The reference to "Marshall (1989), p101" could do with embedding in the text with a <ref> tag to make it clear what it refers to.--Graham Phillips 110 (talk) 11:58, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Done at the time.--Robin (talk) 16:46, 22 September 2019 (UTC)