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Pages in category "Signal boxes in the United Kingdom" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Railway signalling manufacturers" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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 ...
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Throughout railroad history, many manufacturing companies have come and gone. This is a list of companies that manufactured railroad cars and other rolling stock.Most of these companies built both passenger and freight equipment and no distinction is made between the two for the purposes of this list.
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 ...
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]
Westinghouse Rail Systems Ltd (formerly Westinghouse Signals Ltd) was a British supplier of railway signalling and control equipment to the rail industry worldwide. Its head office was in Chippenham, Wiltshire, where it manufactured a variety of mechanical and electrical/electronic railway signalling equipment.