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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 ...
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 ...
Floor count. 5. Birmingham New Street Signal Box is a railway signal box in Birmingham, central England, situated on the corner of Brunel and Navigation Streets and at the west end of the platforms of Birmingham New Street railway station. Opened on 3 July 1966, the brutalist structure is a grade II listed building for its architectural value ...
In the 1970s, a substantial project to resignal railway lines into the three railway termini of Charing Cross, Cannon Street and London Bridge was initiated. This involved consolidating 16 signal boxes into one new Area Signalling Centre, to be located at London Bridge - as well as partially rebuilding London Bridge station.
Exmouth Junction was the main marshalling yard for sorting goods traffic between SR stations in Devon and Cornwall, and points further east. The West Sidings were on the north side of line the between the junction and Blackboy tunnel; the Down Sidings were on the south side of the line to the east of the signal box.
Woking's listed signal box [2]. The London and Southampton Railway (L&SR) was authorised on 25 July 1834 [3] [note 1] and construction began in October of that year. [5] The line was built in stages, and the first section, between the London terminus at Nine Elms and "Woking Common", was opened to passengers on 21 May 1838.
In its heyday, Polegate had three signal boxes, Polegate 'A' or West, Polegate 'B' or East and Polegate Crossing. Polegate 'A' signal box was situated at the western end of the station and controlled the junction for the Cuckoo Line to Hailsham and Eridge and the goods yard. Polegate 'B' signal box, situated at the eastern end of the station ...
Rail signaller. (Redirected from Rail Signaller) Signalwoman in a Great Central cabin at Annesley, Nottinghamshire, 1918. A signalman or signaller is an employee of a railway transport network who operates the points and signals from a signal box in order to control the movement of trains.