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tion is completed. When this has been done, the men will be at liberty to move the Points as may be required to suit the convenience of the Signal-adjuster working at them, it being understood that no Train will be sent over them without previous intimation being given in each case by the Hand-signalman.

(g.) When carrying out repairs to Level-crossing Gates or Bars involving the disconnection of the Interlocking, the Signal-adjuster must disconnect and fix at Danger the Distant Signals, and a Hand-signalman must be provided to attend to the working of the Gates or Bars and the protection of the Crossing.

(h.) When the work is completed, the Signalman, after receiving an assurance from the Signal-adjuster that all is right, must test the Locking, and, if found to be all right, then enter in the Train Register, or Book provided for the purpose, the words “Locking restored,” and both he and the Signal-adjuster must sign their names under the words, a note of the time being also inserted.

(i.) When any Fixed Signal is out of order or is disconnected for repair or otherwise, or when any Points are disconnected and the Interlocking of the Point and Signal Levers is all right, the Signalman must, to enable him to obtain the security of the Interlocking, use the Lever applicable to such Signal or Points as if the Signal or Points were in work, and the Signal and Counter-balance Weight must, when necessary, be disconnected by the Signal-adjuster from the Lever to admit of this being done.

(j.) When the Interlocking of any Signal or Point is being repaired, altered, or cleaned by the Signal-adjuster, the Signal-adjuster must not, except for testing purposes, and then only with the permission of the Signalman, move any Lever, but must ask the Signalman to move it for him; nor must the Signalman move any Lever connected with any Point or Signal at which the Signal-adjuster is at work without first obtaining his permission.

Defective Signals, Points, &c.

147. (a.) When a Home, Starting, or Advanced Starting Signal, or Siding Signal applicable to a Siding not protected by Safety Points, becomes defective, or is not working efficiently, a competent person must be placed at such Signal with Hand-signals and Detonators, and act under the Instructions of the Signalman. The Distant Signals applicable to the Lines affected must be kept at Danger by being disconnected from the Levers by which they are worked, and must remain in that position until the defect has been made good and all is again in working-order. If the defective Signal can be placed at Danger, it must be kept at Danger until again in working-order.

(b.) Should the Interlocking of a Lever-frame or any Facing-point, Bolt, or Bar be out of order, one competent man or more, as may be necessary, provided with Hand-signals and Detonators, must be appointed to act under the Instructions of the Signalman in charge of the Signal-box, and the Distant Signals applicable to the Lines affected must be kept at Danger by being disconnected from the Levers as above directed.

(c.) The Hand-signalman must ascertain from the Signalman in charge of the Signal-box what Train he is to bring forward, and if the Train which is to be brought forward is approaching Facing-points, he must, before signalling it forward, inform the Signalman in charge of the Signal-box the position of such Points, and satisfy himself that they are set and secured for the Line on which the Signalman in the Signal-box intends the Train should run.

(d.) If the Train which is to be brought forward is approaching Trailing-points, the Hand-signalman must satisfy himself that the Points are in the proper position for the Train to pass.

(e.) The Hand-signalman, must, when signalling a Train forward, stand near to the Signal for which he is acting, in order that his Signal may not be mistaken by the Engine-driver on any other Line; and should it be necessary to stop, or reduce the speed of, an approaching Train, the Hand-signalman must exhibit a Red Hand-signal to the Engine-driver until the Train has been stopped or the speed sufficiently reduced, and then, if permission can be given for the Train to proceed, he must exhibit a Green All Right Signal.

(f.) Hand-signalmen must work under the Instructions of the Signalman only, who will be responsible that they are properly instructed as to their duties and understand what they have to do.

(g.) Where practicable, the Station-master must select proper men from his own staff for Hand-signalmen; but where this cannot be done he must apply to the nearest Ganger for Surfacemen competent to act as Hand-signalmen.

(h.) When the Interlocking at a Junction is out of order, the Facing-points must, except when required to be otherwise placed for the passage of Trains, be so set that no Train can cross the path of another Train.

(i.) When a Distant Signal becomes defective, so that it cannot be placed at Danger, a competent person must be stationed just outside it with Hand-signals and Detonators, and there repeat the Signals exhibited at the Home Signal. When such a person is out of sight of the Home Signal, one man or more must be stationed between that and the defective Signal, for the purpose of repeating by Hand-signals to the man stationed at the Distant Signal the Signals exhibited at the Home Signal.

(j.) When a Tunnel intervenes, or in Foggy Weather or during Falling Snow, the man at the Distant Signal must continue to exhibit a Hand Danger Signal, and keep two Detonators, 10 yards apart, on one Rail of the Line to which the Signal applies, until the Signal has been repaired and is again in working-order.

(k.) If the defective Distant Signal can be kept at Danger, it must be kept at