REGISTER

EPA Holman A.M.I.E.E.

Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd.

This paper has been written following the recent bringing into service of the Automatic Hump Yard in Melbourne.  This is the first yard of its kind in Australia and represents a considerable improvement over other methods of shunting previously used, and which are still in use elsewhere. blew equipment of this kind naturally stimulates considerable interest, particularly amongst those involved with railways, and it is hoped that this paper will give a reasonable understanding of the technical aspects of automation.

There have been several previous papers dealing with the subiect of Automatic Marshalling Yards dating back as far as 1934, but these have mainly been written in general terms, whereas this paper deals specifically with the Yard at Melbourne.  However, these papers give an extreme1 valuable background of the facts that have led up to present day thoughts on the subiect of automatic yards and so for reference a list of these papers is included.