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Crikey, Toton was massive back in the heyday.
Makes our old partially gone to history Enfield yard in smog hollow look puny.
We never went in for hump yard style here in NSW.
But, most yards were built on a minor grade to permit manual gravitating and jiffy shunting.
I was in cockroach crew barracks at Enfield adjacent Enfield yard a couple of times when the sirens went off.
A rake of wagons out of control, the shunter performing the gravitating loosing it, followed by one or more loud BANGS.
Interesting also that in the Audio Recordings page of the Toton history, there is mention of Coal greedy Beyer Garratts.
HMMM.
And, now I remember why Toton rang a bell.
The hump signal having the multi-lamp head below the main signal.
I was hunting for info about our NSW single light turnout indicator signal, we call the scattered aces.
A slanted row of originally three whites, but subsequently yellows.
I thought that our signal may have originated via the Pennsy RR Position Light.
But, somebody had suggested that it may have originated from that Toton hump signal.
I will take a gander at the you tuber video clips when I am next at the local library.
Steve.
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