Ballarat East looking towards Ballarat circa 1885. Obviously the home signal at the end of the platform was not interlocked with the hand gates shown across the tracks!
Below is a close up scan of the same photo showing the type of signal in use prior to the introduction of VR's famous somersault signals.
Photo by Emma Nettleton

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page created Mon, 18 Dec 2006