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One-minute learning, the modern School House Rock® of American History, by @hcrichardson.bsky.social team #250to250

Cripple Creek Miners' Strike

Narrated by @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social

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Cripple Creek Miners' Strike, Narrated by Sherrod Brown
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September 21, 2026 at 1:47 AM
literar63.bsky.social
Interesting signalling & safeworking stuff at Ararat railway museum
November 10, 2024 at 8:33 AM
mrpeterjulian.bsky.social
New Westminster–Burnaby–Maillardville NDP and I stand in solidarity w/ #BCNurses. They have sacrificed so much 2 care 4 those who are ill, including risking their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. They deserve #fairwages and #safeworking conditions. #BCNursesUnion
July 16, 2026 at 3:48 AM
xtrackka.bsky.social
This is really dumb. Trains release so much crud the panels would be filthy very quickly; and the safeworking requirements on active railway tracks would make installation and maintenance a nightmare.
January 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
griffonboi.net
I think he is safeworking idk
February 23, 2026 at 6:02 AM
railmaps.com.au
Today's historic pic: The Cooma-bound Canberra Monaro Express formed of a 7-car DEB set headed by power car PF908 with PF901 at rear, slows for a safeworking stop at Royalla, NSW, December 12 1985. Power car 908 was withdrawn just 4 weeks afterwards after having been destroyed by fire near Dombarton
A 7-car DEB set diesel multiple unit train in Candy livery running on a single track line in a rural location approaches a level crossing marked with a set of crossbucks and a stop sign.
June 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
midmantle.bsky.social
Driver training for the Byford extension begins on Monday, 21st July 2025.

The extension is probably going to open around November.
"Transition from ALTC to PTA Safeworking Rules The transition from ALCA to PTA Safeworking rules will occur at 0600 on Sunday 6th July 2025, after which full PTA Safeworking rules will apply between: Local Possession Authority (LPA) period To enable projects to undertake finishing and commissioning works prior to Driver Training, a Local Possession Authority (LPA) will be in effect immediately after the transition on 0600 Sunday 6th July 2025 and remain in place through to 0500 Monday 21st July 2025, after which Driver Training will commence."
June 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
theboatend.bsky.social
British rolling stock is not designed for north american style full-contact safeworking, there's a reason your trains are so heavy.
December 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
railmaps.com.au
The same train just north of Michelago then into a staff exchange stop at the closed station at Williamsdale.
44 class loco, flat end leading, hauls a short two car plus van passenger train up an incline through a cutting in a rural location. 44 class loco, flat end leading, hauls a short two car plus van passenger train into a safeworking stop at a wooden faced platform in a rural location
June 1, 2026 at 11:38 AM
mandrewwaugh.bsky.social
The safeworking is probably the real killer irrespective of the electrical problems. It's not easy to get trains talking two (or more) different styles of ATO/ATP. The only example I know is Crossrail, and I know that was a nightmare.
March 13, 2026 at 3:48 AM
tinywires.bsky.social
I love universal railway safeworking protocols (secret signalnerd 😏)
January 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM
nhikael.bsky.social
in the march 2025 issue of the american model railroader magazine there is an article about electric staffs (train safeworking equipment) that references sydney trains!

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March 2025 - Trains
The table of contents, features, and illustrative photos for the most recent issue of Model Railroader magazine.
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May 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
tweetingtechno.bsky.social
I worked briefly for the safeworking section of NSW railways (oh god). A shunter unloading a grain truck hit the overhead wire with his head. His head did what the possum did.
Remember the Triple J exploding head shirts? He was wearing one of those at the time. Triple J in stereo ...
March 2, 2026 at 2:14 AM
jonowee.bsky.social
This is on my phone now?

For your reading in case you might need it.
PTA (Transperth) Safeworking Rules and Procedures, on Hand signals and verbal commands 2003. Stop: two hands held high steady above the shoulders. Emergency or danger: Vigorous and erratic waving of arms above shoulders. All clear: one hand held up.
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
railmaps.com.au
Today’s historic pic: A lower quadrant semaphore home signal shows a proceed aspect for the down Canberra Monaro Express to enter Canberra station, Kingston ACT, September 8 1985. 44228 sits in a siding with the Southern Highlands Express, and a set of ARHS(ACT) end platform cars is stabled at right
A view looking straight along a railway track leading into a passenger station. At left in the foreground is a lower quadrant semaphore home signal with the arm in the lowered position. In the distance at left is a white painted safeworking hut which obscures the passenger station itself. At right, sitting on a track in the yard is a passenger train with a diesel locomotive at its head. To the right of that train is a large cream coloured goods shed, and to the right of that on a track at an angle to the others is a set of end-platform heritage passenger carriages.
July 8, 2024 at 3:24 AM
railmaps.com.au
Today’s historic pic: EMD-engined branchline loco 4910 running a 3-day LVR tour at Gwabegar, NSW, January 30 1983. Note the station name scrawled on the platform coping. Gwabegar, 603km from Sydney at the terminus of a 432km long branch line, has seen no trains since about 2005.
Taken from a low angle in a rail yard in a regional setting, a diesel locomotive in dark red or brown livery with yellow lining, sits in front of a decaying earthen station platform atop which stands a prefab safeworking hut. The door of the hut is open and a member of the train staff is leaning casually on the door jamb, fully aware of the phalanx of photographers snapping images of the train (and him) from across the rail yard. In the foreground is a ground-mounted points indicator.
June 28, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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Today's historic pic: The crew of the northbound Cooma Mail access the unmanned signalbox to perform safeworking and shunting after having crossed the southbound Canberra Monaro Express at Farrer Loop on the single track section between Bungendore and Queanbeyan, NSW, December 14 1985.
A small peaked-roof fibro signal box in a rural location stands on a concrete base at the side of a railway track as seen through the window of a train standing on the track adjacent. A train crew member is standing on the ground near the foot of an external wooden staircase leading up to an open door. A corrugated iron small water tank stands alongside the signal box with a downpipe leading down from the roof gutter. A couple of slab-sided outbuildings are nearby and a telegraph pole is at left. In the background is a flat area of grassland with a range of low hills on the horizon.
March 17, 2024 at 2:54 AM
erdoc.bsky.social
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Man attacks medical staff, could have caused explosion inside Seattle hospital, police say
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) says a 29-year-old man was arrested on Saturday morning after destroying a hospital room at Harborview Medical Center.
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February 16, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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The levers controlled points and signals. At right is an electric staff instrument linked with the adjacent stations to confirm the track was clear. Note the metal staves in the safeworking instrument; just one could be released at a time, and trains could proceed only when in possession of a staff.
September 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
railmaps.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
Whilst Farrer was never a passenger station, trains did stop to exchange safeworking staffs, and it was a regularly scheduled crossing place for trains - including the up Cooma Mail and Down Canberra Monaro as seen here. Farrer was also a common destination for the ARHS ACT Division's out and […]
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December 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
midmantle.bsky.social
Trial running on the Victoria Park-Canning Level Crossing Removal Project will start on the 13th of March and driver training will commence on the 17th of March.

We are only a few months from part of the Armadale line reopening.
"Victoria Park-Canning Level Crossing Removal As of the completion of Shut Down 9 (SD9) on the 13th of March 2025 the Armadale Line that was previously under the control the Armadale Line Control Authority will revert to the PTA Safeworking Rules and Procedures. OLE is now energised from the A05.532km to the A15.816. As such, PTA Rule 2017- Working Around Electrical Infrastructure- Is in full effect. A Trial Running Phase will commence on the 13th of March 2025 with Driver Training to commence from the 17th of March and will continue until revenue services"
March 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
agreencow.bsky.social
A museum I use to be involved with, but left due to their stance “Women didn’t drive in the 50’s so you can’t do it.”, despite 20y experience, has had another issue.
Male driver with multiple safeworking breaches, but allowed to continue, because “He’s a good bloke.”
But yeah, women are the problem.
January 6, 2024 at 11:12 AM
meathgroup.bsky.social
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June 11, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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Since then, the manual signalling and safeworking systems on the main line have been replaced with more modern centrally controlled systems and the signal box is now no longer used.

Whilst there are still two tracks through here and express trains pass through on both lines, platform 2, from […]
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July 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Today's historic photo of the day: The Cooma-bound Canberra Monaro Express run by a 7-car DEB set with PF908 leading and PF901 at rear, slows for a safeworking stop at Royalla, NSW, December 7 1985.

In 1985, the Canberra Monaro Express was a 6-days per week […]

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A 7-car DEB set diesel multiple unit train in Candy livery running on a single track line in a rural location approaches a level crossing marked with a set of crossbucks and a stop sign.
June 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM