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Slater's 1877-8 Directory of Manchester and Salford describes Smith as "a railway plant manufacturer (signal)" at 1 Canal Street, and in 1881 as a "Patent Railway Signal Manufacturer". After 1881, the L&YR entered into an exclusive contract with the Railway Signal Co. and orders to Smith and Yardley dried up.
Hebden Bridge signal box A number of signal boxes in England are on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. Signal boxes house the signalman and equipment that control the railway points and signals. Originally, railway signals were controlled from a hut on a platform at junctions. In the 1850s, a raised building with a glazed upper storey containing ...
A British Upper Quadrant semaphore signal. In the days of the first British railways, "policemen" were employed by every railway company. Their jobs were many and varied, but one of their key roles was the giving of hand signals to inform engine drivers as to the state of the line ahead. [3]
Stirling North signal box A number of signal boxes in Scotland are on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. Signal boxes house the signalman and equipment that control the railway points and signals. Originally railway signals were controlled from a hut on a platform at junctions, but by the 1860s this had developed into a raised building with a glazed ...
The signal box provided a dry, climate-controlled space for the complex interlocking mechanics and also the signalman. The raised design of most signal boxes (which gave rise to the term "tower" in North America) also provided the signalman with a good view of the railway under his control. The first use of a signal box was by the London ...
Roydon railway station; Y. York IECC This page was last edited on 15 September 2014, at 21:16 (UTC). ... Category: Signal boxes in the United Kingdom.
The ROC is the building on the left with the black Network Rail logo. A rail operating centre (ROC) is a building that houses all signallers, signalling equipment, ancillaries and operators for a specific region or route on the United Kingdom's main rail network. The ROC supplants the work of several other signal boxes which have thus become ...