Hi, if anyone has knowledge about railway signals, I’ve proposed a tagging system for railway signals in New Zealand and for the simplest example from Australia (Sydney Metro).
These OpenRailwayMap tags are country/system-specific, and requires someone from each country to invent a tagging system for the local system(s).
I’m not an expert in this area, so any feedback would be appreciated! Thanks to everyone who’s already helped me to understand this complex topic
I’m a railway enthusiast turned rail transport supporter (member of the Rail Futures Institute - https://www.railfutures.org.au/) and coincidentally have just written an item on OpenRailwayMap for this group.
Would you like me to pass details of this to one of the Australian railway magazines?
Also, you may be interested in the VicSig website at: VICSIG and VICSIG
Hi John, thanks for sharing those links! Yes please, if you know anyone who’d be willing to review our draft tagging scheme for australian signals, that would be wonderful. It only has metro+tram+light rail so far, since those systems are much simpler than heavy rail. I’ll try to put together a draft for NSW heavy rail signals soon, and then send an update here.
For New Zealand, we’re a few steps ahead - these signals and boards are now rendered on OpenRailwayMap:
I noticed that the VICSIG links your shared describe a system that’s very similar to NZ’s system – so adding support for Victoria should be easy.
the wiki page now has a proposed tagging scheme for NSW heavy rail (Sydney Trains / ARTC).
As always, any feedback would be appreciated!
