Australian Railway Signalling - Conflicting Aspects

The separate states of Australia are all responsible for managing their own railway networks, and as a result each has evolved in very different ways. In the 20th century the busier networks started adopting more complex signalling systems, and this was not standardised across the country. As a result of this, the systems we see today have many signal aspects which mean completely different things in different states. This isn't a major problem as very few drivers actually need to learn multiple systems, but it's certainly a curiosity of the un-coordinated approach taken to railways in Australia.
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I have made several other videos explaining various signalling systems in more detail (including the Victorian and NSW ones discussed here), which you can find in this playlist: • Railway Signalling Exp...
The black & white footage in the opening scene is from onboard the 1880s 'XYZ' cars on the Victorian Goldfields Railway, you can watch the full video in colour here: • Victorian Colonial Exp...
You can also find more information about the systems used by each state in these links:
NSW: railsafe.org.a...
Victoria: vicsig.net/ind...
Queensland: www.queenslands...
There is also a fairly good Wikipedia article comparing the different systems here: en.wikipedia.o...
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