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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1910.

Train Register Book,

The Attention Signal.

The Is Line 4lear Signal.

The Refusal of the is Line Clear Signal and the

Sending of the Obstruction

Danger Signal.

The Train

Entering

(4) Should the station to which a signal is sent not reply, the signal must be repeated at intervals of not less than twenty seconds until the reply is received.

77.--(1) A Train Register book shall be kept by the Station- master or under his orders.

(2) The person who keeps the said book shall enter therein, immediately after acknowledgment, all signals received or ser on the instruments, and the times of receipt and despatch.

(3) The times entered in the book must be the actual times, except that any fraction of a minute must be counted as one minute.

(4) All entries in the book must be made in ink.

(5) No erasure shall be made in the book; but if any entry is found to be incorrect a line must be drawn lightly through it, so that it may be read at any time, and the correct entry must be made above it.

(6) The person who keeps the book shall be responsible for all entries made therein and for correctly filling in each column thereof.

78.--(1) The Attention signal must be given when it is neces- sary to direct attention to the block instrument.

(2) When the attention signal is sent before the despatch of the Is Line Clear signal, it shall not be given until the Train out of Section signal has been received for the last preceding train.

79.--In order to ascertain whether the station in advance is in a position to give a permission to approach to the station in rear, and in order to describe the train, the Is Line Clear signal (as in the Bell Code, according to the description of train) must be sent to the station in advance.

(1) If, on the receipt of an Is Line Clear signal, the conditions under which a permission to approach can be given are complied with, the station in advance must accept the signal by sending the signal prescribed by special instructions to indicate Line Clear on the particular block instruments in use.

(2) Except in case of failure of the block instruments, a train shall not be allowed to leave a station unless the Line Clear signal has been so sent.

80.-(1) If, by reason of the line being blocked by the presence of a train in the section or by shunting or for any other reason, the station in advance is unable to accept the Is Line Clear signal, such station must refuse it by sending the Obstruction Danger signal.

(2) If the station in advance wishes the train to be detained at the station from which the Is Line Clear signal is sent, in order to cross a train approaching from the opposite direction, the Is Line Clear signal must be refused by sending the Obstruction Danger signal.

(3) If the station in advance dues not accept the Is Line Clear signal, the train must be stopped at the station, and shall not be alt-rod to leave until a fresh Is Line Clear signal has been given to and accepted by the state in advance.

81.--(1) On the departure of a train from a station, the Train Section Signal. Entering Section signal must be sent to the station in advance, and

must be duly acknowledged.

The Train out

of Section and

the Obstruction

Removed Signal.

(2) When so acknowledged, the section shall be considered to be blocked against any other train.

82.-(1) When the section is cleared by the arrival of the train or by the removal of the cause of blocking, the Train out of Section or Obstruction Removed signal must be given by the station in advance.

(2) Before the Train out of Section signal is given the Station-

master must—

(a) satisfy himself that the train has arrived complete;

and

(b) satisfy himself that the conditions under which per- mission to approach can be given are complied with.

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