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The Sectional Appendix is the definitive source of information on UK railway infrastructure for specific regions. The Weekly Operating Notice (WON) provides information of Safety Notices, Temporary Speed Restrictions, Engineering Arrangements, Signalling & permanent Way alterations and General Instructions & notices for specific regions.
The DRA serves as a reminder that the driver may be approaching a stop signal. The DRA must only be reset: If there is no signal ahead, when the driver has authority to start the train. When the signal ahead has cleared to a proceed aspect. [5] When the driver has authority to pass the signal ahead at danger.
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]
In fact, between 1845 and 1933, [3] there was a 4 miles per hour (6.4 km/h) speed limit on level crossings of turnpike roads adjacent to stations for lines whose authorising act of Parliament had been consolidated in the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 although this limit was at least sometimes (and possibly often) disregarded. [4] [a] [5]
A non-primary road sign near Bristol shows Guildford Rules patches.Road signs in the United Kingdom and in its associated Crown dependencies and overseas territories conform broadly to European design norms, with a number of exceptions: direction signs omit European route numbers, and road signs generally use the imperial system of units (miles and yards), unlike the rest of Europe (kilometres ...
The first such systems were installed on an experimental basis in the 1910s in the United Kingdom, in the 1920s in the United States, and in the Netherlands in the 1940s. . Modern high-speed rail systems such as those in Japan, France, and Germany were all designed from the start to use in-cab signalling due to the impracticality of sighting wayside signals at the new higher train spee
Stop line in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan Give Way lines in the UK "Shark's teeth" yield lines (white isosceles triangles) as used in the US and many European countries. Stop and yield lines [1] are transverse road surface markings that inform drivers where they should stop or yield when approaching an intersection.
Costing one penny, the first edition of the code was published on 14 April 1931. It contained 21 pages of advice, including the arm signals to be given by drivers and police officers controlling traffic. [4] The second edition, considerably expanded, appeared in 1934, and now illustrated road signs for the first time.