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Hubert Lam

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Nov 13, 2000, 3:00:00 AM11/13/00
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Hi to all. HSC finally over, but won't stay here for too long; just a
questions for starters...what does WOLO stand for?

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Michael

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Nov 13, 2000, 3:00:00 AM11/13/00
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"Tezza"
>"David Johnson"
>> "Hubert Lam"

>>> Hi to all. HSC finally over, but won't stay here for too long; just
>>> a questions for starters...what does WOLO stand for?

>> It stands for: "It's a hot day, so reduce the speed of trains due to
>> the possibility of buckles."

> Buttons and zips are OK though.

But not ties.

M.

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David Johnson

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Nov 13, 2000, 9:19:18 AM11/13/00
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Hubert Lam wrote:

> Hi to all. HSC finally over, but won't stay here for too long; just a
> questions for starters...what does WOLO stand for?

It stands for: "It's a hot day, so reduce the speed of trains due to the
possibility of buckles."

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Tezza

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Nov 13, 2000, 4:22:35 PM11/13/00
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"David Johnson" <trai...@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hubert Lam wrote:
>
> > Hi to all. HSC finally over, but won't stay here for too long; just a
> > questions for starters...what does WOLO stand for?
>
> It stands for: "It's a hot day, so reduce the speed of trains due to the
> possibility of buckles."

Buttons and zips are OK though.


Tom

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Nov 13, 2000, 5:54:07 PM11/13/00
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I finished monday 30th October.

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> Hi to all. HSC finally over, but won't stay here for too long; just a
> questions for starters...what does WOLO stand for?
>

Russell Norton

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Nov 13, 2000, 9:24:47 PM11/13/00
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"David Johnson" <trai...@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hubert Lam wrote:
>
> > ...what does WOLO stand for?
>
> It stands for: "It's a hot day, so reduce the speed of trains due to the
> possibility of buckles."

As above. The letters WOLO have no real meaning, it is a remnant from the
old telegram / telegraph days where four letter code words were (and still
are) used. e.g. WOLO, ZONA, WAXY, ZEBU etc.

Russ.


Cameron White

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Nov 14, 2000, 1:00:35 AM11/14/00
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how about a nickname I have heard

W (arning) O(f) L (ow) O(verhead)

a Station Attendant friend of mine calls it that.

he reckons that not only did the track need concrete sleepers but the newer
overhead has the tensioners which help during hot weather (and the blue
mountains when it gets cold there)


Tom

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Nov 14, 2000, 3:00:00 AM11/14/00
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what day did you finish?

Craig Haber

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Nov 14, 2000, 3:00:00 AM11/14/00
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G'day,

Russell Norton wrote:

> As above. The letters WOLO have no real meaning, it is a remnant from the
> old telegram / telegraph days where four letter code words were (and still
> are) used. e.g. WOLO, ZONA, WAXY, ZEBU etc.

Ahh yes, spent one arvo discussing these and an ex-guard, we reckon there were
a few "4 letter codes" that didn't make the rule book, such as:

OOPS - meaning - "an ease up rough enough to knock the guard out of his van"
SHIT - meaning - "several thousand dollars damage has been done here"

there were a couple of others, perhaps best not printed here :)

On a serious note, are the codes common across all states? Certainly WOLO is
also heat speed restrictions in Victoria too.

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Robert Harris

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Nov 14, 2000, 3:00:00 AM11/14/00
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What about WHOOO Looower speed? :-)

It was from the old telegram days.
Others not previously listed ROVA MECH, INJY.

rgds

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Yuri

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Nov 14, 2000, 10:03:38 PM11/14/00
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:05:22 +1100, Craig Haber
<alba...@harnessnet.com.au> wrote:

> Certainly WOLO is
>also heat speed restrictions in Victoria too.

WOLO does*not* appear in the Victorian Railways Telegraph Code Book
(G.132) of Jan 1972.

For everyone's information, the full code book is located on Railpage
at http://www.railpage.org.au/telecode

Erk

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Nov 15, 2000, 3:00:00 AM11/15/00
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"Yuri" <stea...@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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I've read through that book now - how many of those codes are still in
common usage I wonder?


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B.

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Erk <e...@erkV69.au.com> wrote in message
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> "Yuri" <stea...@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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>| For everyone's information, the full code book is located on
>| Railpage at http://www.railpage.org.au/telecode

> I've read through that book now - how many of those codes are


> still in common usage I wonder?

ACRE, AGNE, AUDI & AWAK are still in the rule book IIRC.

A few more are used in telegrams.

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Dennis Rittson

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Nov 17, 2000, 10:42:04 PM11/17/00
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Yuri wrote:

> WOLO does*not* appear in the Victorian Railways Telegraph Code Book
> (G.132) of Jan 1972.
>
> For everyone's information, the full code book is located on Railpage
> at http://www.railpage.org.au/telecode

True.
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Jul 9, 2013, 5:49:29 PM7/9/13
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The term WOLO was historically applied as a NSW Government Railway telegram code with the meaning Welded track restrictions on the speed and Operations of Locomotives.

Kingpin

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Jul 10, 2013, 2:30:27 AM7/10/13
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On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 14:49:29 -0700 (PDT), jjas...@googlemail.com wrote:

> The term WOLO was historically applied as a NSW Government Railway telegram code with the meaning Welded track restrictions on the speed and Operations of Locomotives.

The term predates (by a long time) welded rails. Some later railway people reckon it
stood for Watch Out Low Overhead.


Chris Diesel

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Jul 10, 2013, 9:51:59 AM7/10/13
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"Kingpin" <kin...@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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I doubt it. More likely a simple code used during the Morse code days. I
remember seeing a NSWGR list of a hundred of such codes for various items. I
wish I'd kept a copy of it now.


Matthew Geier

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Jul 12, 2013, 2:57:31 AM7/12/13
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On Wednesday, 10 July 2013 23:51:59 UTC+10, Chris Diesel wrote:

> I doubt it. More likely a simple code used during the Morse code days. I
> remember seeing a NSWGR list of a hundred of such codes for various items. I
> wish I'd kept a copy of it now.

I'd go for this - in itself, the 4 letters mean nothing, it's just a 4 letter code that can be transmitted quickly by telegraph with a low error rate.

The codes were probably carefully chosen so that a transcription error of part of the code would yield a rubbish word that wasn't in the code book and the receiver would know there had been a mistake made in transmission. Certainly not a fool proof error checking method, but every bit helps.

Remember the operators would have been tapping this out in Morse Code originally and the receiver would most probably be listening to the clicks on a primitive Morse receiver and writing the message out by hand.

fish womper

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Jul 15, 2013, 8:49:59 PM7/15/13
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"Matthew Geier" <mat...@sleeper.apana.org.au> wrote in message
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As has been indicated, this was originally a telegraphic code word just like
WAXY, WANY, ZEBU, RULO and hundreds of others.

In very recent years it has been decided, apparently officially, that WOLO
stands for Warning of Low Overheads (even thouigh it applies equally on
non-electrified lines). It is of course a warning of expected high
temperature conditions.

fish


David Philips

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Mar 3, 2014, 7:02:50 AM3/3/14
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May I but into this discussion.
Back in the mid 60's I was with the NSWGR at Strathfield signal box. We got
telegrams about stuff all the time with these codes, frequently cancelling
someone's roster (usually mine as I was 3rd man relief) and advising that
instead the person (me) was to report for duty at a different location on
the next day and that one of the other guys in the box would take over my
roster. WAXY WARY ZEBU. No, the code itself (the letters) did not stand for
anything but the codes did have a meaning. WAXY WARY ZEBU - arrange and
advise all concerned was part of it as I remember from all those years ago.

David


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