fairysdad
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Earlier on, I was sat in my car in the station car park at Hamworthy station. A train came into the down platform (towards Weymouth), and departed. I noticed that the signal at the end of the platform (HW50) was on green when the train was in the station, but more interestingly, it remained green after the train had passed it.
This is the signal involved - I assume that the semaphore signal behind is for the Hamworthy goods line down to Poole docks (if I didn't see the semaphore, I would've assumed that the green would've been for that line instead).
I'm just curious to know really! I've seen that usually signals turn red as soon as the train passes it (a while ago I was on a train about mid-way along, and somebody was panicking because to them, the train was passing all these red signals...!) so was wondering why this one didn't...
TIA
This is the signal involved - I assume that the semaphore signal behind is for the Hamworthy goods line down to Poole docks (if I didn't see the semaphore, I would've assumed that the green would've been for that line instead).
I'm just curious to know really! I've seen that usually signals turn red as soon as the train passes it (a while ago I was on a train about mid-way along, and somebody was panicking because to them, the train was passing all these red signals...!) so was wondering why this one didn't...
TIA