R.o.B Tramways
Operational Notices
Operational Procedures and notices are an important part of Tramway and Railway operation. These are rules that must be obeyed and there are procedures for the majority of eventualities and if there are not and an event occurs staff use there common sense with an operational procedure being compiled with the experience of the event. By no means are these permanent and my change from time to time as experience devlops or alternative operating practices take place.
Below are copies of some operational procedures from the
Regulation running speeds:
RUNNING INSTRUCTIONS
Maximum speeds and Compulsory stops fixed by the Board of Trade.
Between Clock tower [Indoor market, market place] and
Between
Passing under
Between North road Railway bridge and Harrowgate hill terminus, 12 miles an hour.
The speed must never exceed 4 miles an hour when a car is passing facing points.
Motormen must drive carefully when descending Lowson slack in either direction[?].
STOP- All cars must come to a full stop before reaching
Round Curve between Prebend row and Bondgate, 4 miles an hour.
Round Curve between Northgate and Bondgate, 4 miles and Hour.
Between corner of High Row and Skinnergate, 6 miles an hour.
Between Skinnergate and Greenbank road, 10 miles an hour.
Between Greenbank road and
Between
The speed must never exceed 4 miles an hour when a car is passing over facing points.
STOP- All cars must come to a full stop before reaching
Round Curve between Prebend row and Tubwell row, 4 miles an hour.
Round curve by clock tower, 4 miles an hour.
DOWN Tubwell row to
UP Tubwell row to Clock tower, 8 miles an hour.
Between
Round Curve between
Between St Hildas Church and
Passing under Railway bridges in cut, 4 miles an hour.
Between
The speed must never exceed 4 miles an hour when a car is passing over facing points.
STOP- All cars must come to a full stop before reaching
Round Curve between
Between Clay row and entrance of car sheds, 8 miles an hour.
Entrance of car sheds to Bridge over railway, UP 10 miles an hour.
Bridge over Railway to entrance of car sheds, DOWN 8 miles an hour.
Between bridge over railway and terminus (
The speed must never exceed 4 miles an hour when a car is passing over facing points.
Motormen must use their judgement as to the speed at which it is safe to drive, according to the amount of traffic in the streets and the state of the rails, but they must not in any case exceed the rate of speed fixed by the Board of trade. The fact that the Board of Trade Inspector has fixed a maximum speed of 6, 8, or 10 miles an hour between certain points does not necessarily mean that it is safe to drive at this speed under all or any conditions of traffic.
General. In addition to the stops mentioned above, all cars must come to a standstill at all places where a sign bearing the words 'All cars stop here' is fixed, and all cars must slow at, and stop if required at places where a sign bearing the words 'Cars stop here when required' is fixed.
At and after dusk every car must show a red light behind and in addition to the head light the cars running to and from:-
Harrowgate hill must show a yellow light in front,
Cockerton " " a Green light
Barton Street " " a Purple light
October 1904
In event of wire fall:
Rules to be observed in case of wires charged with electricity falling in the street.
1). In the event of telephone and telegraph wires falling and making contact with the overhead trollywire, or in the event of the trolley wires itself, or its Guard wires falling, all traffic in the close vicinity of the wires should be stopped, and the public prevented from approaching the fallen wires.
2). The fallen wires should on no account be interfered with by any unauthorized person, unless for the purpose of saving life or protecting persons from being injured, as explained in Rule 4, hereunder.
3). Notice should be at once given to the nearest [Tram]Car Driver, inspector, or other tramway official, who will take steps to cut off the electricity. If such official is not available, notice should be at once sent to the electricity works, or Car Sheds,
4). If the fallen wire is in contact with any person, and it is necessary to remove it at once in order to save life or prevent injury, the following points should be remembered. The person touching the wire should:-
- a). Never touch it with his bare hands or damp gloves.
- b). Never touch the person in contact with it except as mentioned in c).
- c). Use a DRY stick, a DRY rope, or article of DRY clothing, or Indiarubber gloves, if available, to drag the wire away, or to drag the person away from the wire.
NOTE: that it is very important that any article used for this purpose should be DRY; a wet article will convey the electricity and may give the person handling it a severe shock.
- d). In case it is impossible to get the wire away from the person, the wire should be dragged to the nearest Tram Rail, and held down upon it, in order to discharge the electricity from it. A considerable amount of flashing may be caused when the wire touches the rail, but this will not cause injury in any way. The wire should be kept in contact with the rail until the engineer in charge at the electricity works has been notified.
5). In each Car there will be carried a pair of Indiarubber gloves, and these should be used.
6). Animation can often be restored by treating persons suffering from electric shock in a similar way to persons rescued from drowning.