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In the News (Sat 26 Dec 09)

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	Signalling Exchange Days at the Dean Forest Railway!
		The Railway is within easy reach of the M4 (M48) at Chepstow, the M50 at Ross on Wye and the M5 at Gloucester and so it is easy to travel long distances to reach us by 0915.
		For any signalmen from other railways interested in working these boxes, we would be pleased to offer selected days for individuals to work each of the boxes, under supervision of one of the senior DFR signalmen.
		In addition, the signalman has to supervise the correct working of the automatic barriers on the by pass level crossing.
	www.deanforestrailway.co.uk /experience_signalling.html (584 words)

	Volume 10-4g
		There were 2 Signalman positions at Tennyson and the drivers would tell me many a story about the other Signalman taking photos of his wife in the nude in and out of the cabin on the night shift.
		The railways investigated the claim and come to the conclusion that the keg may have been emptied in Sydney or Grafton, as the wagon sat in Grafton over night.
		In early 1967, I was appointed to 5th Class Signalman at Tennyson.
	www.sunsteam.org.au /volume10-4g.htm (584 words)

	The Central Wales Line – Bottom End!
		The 16 lever box at Mumbles Road station controlled a two siding goods yard (one of the lines had previously been joined with the Mumbles Railway as the means to get trucks of coal to the township of Mumbles further along the coast) and being close to the road just couldn’t be missed.
		The old Mumbles train (first passenger carrying railway in the world – the Swansea and Mumbles and first powered by sail in c1807 believe it or not - latterly electric) and the main highway ran parallel with the LMS railway to Mumbles Road.
		In order to do this the Mumbles Road signalman would have to advise the Swansea Bay No. 2 signalman (Bay No.1 is switched out now remember) that he intends to occupy this advance section ¼ mile clearing point within station limits, in the process of crossing the train from one running line to another.
	www.signalbox.org /branches/bw/centralwales.htm (584 words)

	A Rough Guide to Model Railway Signalling
		For ease of handling, both sorts of token were generally placed by the signalman into a pouch with a large ring, allowing the engine fireman to put his forearm into it from a moving train.
		On arrival at Our Box, the tablet is given up (either automatically or by hand) to the signalman, and one for the next section exchanged where possible.
		A switch on the signal itself made or broke an electrical circuit, the result of which was shown in the box, often as a miniature signal arm in a small circular glass-fronted case.
	www.btinternet.com /~nigeldigby.models/brm4.htm (3592 words)

	Question: What is the 'metal' pole drivers have? - Railpage Australia™ Forums (The Intercity Platform)
		When a train using a Staff Ticket reaches the staff station, the signalman at that station sends a message to the signalman at the first station that the (complete) train has arrived.
		General questions about railways should be posted to the Forums.
		Stations at the end of the section were termed staff stations.
	www.railpage.com.au /f-t10247.htm (937 words)

	The Central Wales Line – Bottom End!
		The 16 lever box at Mumbles Road station controlled a two siding goods yard (one of the lines had previously been joined with the Mumbles Railway as the means to get trucks of coal to the township of Mumbles further along the coast) and being close to the road just couldn’t be missed.
		The old Mumbles train (first passenger carrying railway in the world – the Swansea and Mumbles and first powered by sail in c1807 believe it or not - latterly electric) and the main highway ran parallel with the LMS railway to Mumbles Road.
		In order to do this the Mumbles Road signalman would have to advise the Swansea Bay No. 2 signalman (Bay No.1 is switched out now remember) that he intends to occupy this advance section ¼ mile clearing point within station limits, in the process of crossing the train from one running line to another.
	www.signalbox.org /branches/bw/centralwales.htm (937 words)

	Volume 10-4a
		This did the trick and he was transferred to Brisbane Relief until he got the position of Signalman at Dutton Park.
		My years with Queensland Government Railways started before I was born at the end of 1948.
		Uncle Stan was a Signalman at Gympie Signal Cabin had tried for a number of years to transfer to Brisbane as he was dating my Aunty.
	www.sunsteam.org.au /volume10-4a.htm (937 words)

	Give my regards to Broad Street
		When the station's signalling was rationalised in 1970, No.2 box was the lucky survivor, and the only one I was privileged to work as a relief signalman in the 'eighties.
		Inside Broad Street box, showing the Stevens and Sons frame that survived to be the last of its type on the North London Railway's lines by many years.
		At the "business-end" of the frame (in later years most of the levers at the high end were out of use) stands an odd character of a Relief Signalman by the name of John Hinson.
	www.signalbox.org /branches/jh/broadstreet2.htm (937 words)

	Arrochar & Tarbet signal box
		As with the Highland Railway boxes, the signalman resided (with his single-line instruments) in the booking office where he could also sell tickets and carry out general station duties.
		Most of the boxes built for the opening of the North British Railway's West Highland line were small single-storey cabins built on the island platforms that were provided at passing points on the single line.
		Some booking offices on the line were also the village Post Office, for which the signalman received a small addition to their wages.
	www.signalbox.org /gallery/sc/arrochar.htm (937 words)

	Signalman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A signalman is the employee on a railway who operates the points and signals in a signal box.
		While there was certainly a Signalman rating before World War Two (the Signalman rating is one of the oldest in the Navy), a specialized Signalman rating was established shortly after the war.
		In the Australian Army, a Signalman (or "sigs") is an Other Rank (OR) that specialises in varied forms of communication.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Signalman (282 words)

	The Signalman - review
		The narrative centres on a signalman who works at an isolated junction at the bottom of a long and deep railway cutting.
		The philosophical conversations between the signalman and the traveller yield no answer to what the murky gesturing figure may be or what it wants but it exists nonetheless.
		As “The signalman” stands at the moment it costs out at approx 50 pence per minute which can’t be right.
	www.lightsfade.com /reviews/signalman.htm (734 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Drama - The Signalman
		Charles Dickens' spine-tingling tale of rationalism versus superstition is set on a lonely stretch of railway at the mouth of a foreboding tunnel, where a haunted man is visited by a spirited traveller and confesses to him that his post is cursed by tragedies and spectres.
		The Signalman is the first evidence of Andrew Davies' gift as an adaptor of literary fiction, as he transforms a Victorian page turner into the finest 40 minutes of supernatural drama television has ever produced.
		The Signalman, was the 1976 entry in the successful Ghost Story for Christmas BBC TV series.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/features/signalman.shtml (313 words)

	Essay or Coursework - 'The Darkness Out There' by Penelope Lively and 'The Signalman' by Charles Dickens.
		The signalman tells the narrator that six hours later an accident occurred on railway line and people were left dead.
		The signalman requests the narrator that when he reaches the path and then the bank the next day he should not call out.
		He tells the signalman that he may have a medical problem, which allows him to see things that do not exist.
	www.coursework.info /i/8881.html (656 words)

	By Level> GCSE> English Literature> Novels & Short Stories> By Author> Charles Dickens Essays and Coursework
		The Signalman - The setting of the story is a deep railway embankment with a large dark tunnel....
		An analysis of the characteristics of the horror genre with particular reference to 'The signalman' by Charles Dickens a...
		I decided to write about the signalman's thoughts about the spectre because I think that is the most important aspect of...
	www.coursework.info /412 (1376 words)

	Bluebell Railway - Signalling Bell Codes
		When a signalman sends a signal to his colleague in the adjacent box, that colleague will acknowledge the signal by repeating it back to the first signalman, provided he is able.
		The signalman at HK will accept the train by sending three beats followed by one beat and will then allow the signalman at SP to withdraw a single line staff by sending him an electrical release from the staff instrument in HK box.
		If either signalman then needs to send a train to the other, he will simply use the signal for the type of train he is sending.
	www.bluebell-railway.co.uk /bluebell/bells.html (888 words)

	Scene Six of "Junction X"
		No signalman standing at the side of a bomb crater frantically waving a red lamp, while the train screams to a standstill, the engine's front wheels hanging over the crater-edge.
		Railway practice doesn't include desperate rescues in the nick of time.
	freespace.virgin.net /neil.worthington/jx/scene~6.htm (1334 words)

	Synonyms of signalman
		signalman, trainman, railroader, railroad man, railwayman, railway man, signaler, signaller
	www.infoplease.com /thesaurus/signalman (40 words)

	MIDLAND RAILWAY CENTRE SIGNALMAN'S ASSOCIATION
		The boxes are operated by fully trained signalmen who are all members of the MRSA (Midland Railway Signalman's Association).
		The Midland Railway Centre is home to a unique collection of signalboxes originally built by the Midland Railway Company nearly a hundred years ago.
		They are aiming to preserve the concept of semaphore signalling by keeping the boxes in working condition.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~pcrail (285 words)

	MIDLAND RAILWAY CENTRE SIGNALMAN'S ASSOCIATION
		The boxes are operated by fully trained signalmen who are all members of the MRSA (Midland Railway Signalman's Association).
		The Midland Railway Centre is home to a unique collection of signalboxes originally built by the Midland Railway Company nearly a hundred years ago.
		Swanwick and Butterley are used to control trains on the railway using ETB and OTW(OES) regulations.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~pcrail (285 words)

	Ffestiniog
		In 1863 the railway changed over to steam locomotion, and a year later the railway added passenger service.
		By the 1920’s tourism was as important as slate to the railway.
		In the first ever event of its kind guests can select from a menu of activities: ride the foot plate, help the guard, be the signalman, run control, be part of the prep crew, walk the track with the track inspector.
	www.homeatfirst.com /ffestini.htm (898 words)

	The Steam Experience - UK Listings
		The East Anglian Railway Museum's Railway Experience Days give you the chance to learn how a locomotive works, how to fire the locomotive and how to drive it, how to be a signalman and how to be a guard.
		Relive the golden age of the Great Western Railway at the Didcot Railway Centre where the original GWR engine shed is home to a fine collection of lovingly restored locomotives, looked after by the members of the Great Western Society.
		The Bure Valley Railway is now able to offer a range of one or two day courses designed to get you behind the regulator of one of our unique narrow gauge locomotives.
	www.traindriving.com /steam/uksteamlistings.html (2542 words)

	Wales on the Web Talyllyn Railway — A Movie following the Railway
		Wales on the Web Talyllyn Railway - wales flash movie The Talyllyn Railway of two foot three inch gauge runs for seven and a half miles between Towyn and the former Bryn Eglwys slate quarries in the Nant Gwernol valley.
		Locomotive “Talyllyn” is the railway’s oldest and bears the proud “No 1” plate.
		When the quarries closed in 1946 Sir Henry Haydyn Jones, the railway’s owner, decided to preserve the line at his own expense and, when he died in 1950, LTC Rolt founded the “Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society” — Britain’s first such organisation.
	www.worldwidewales.tv /html/movie-122.php (518 words)

	Railway
		Under the Railways Act 1921 (11 and 12 Geo.V, Ch.55, 19th August 1921) the Midland and South Western Junction was absorbed by the Great Western Railway as from 1st July 1923; actual control by the G.W.R. started on 29th October 1923.
		The Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway was authorized by Act of Parliament 44 and 45 Vic.
		Porter under him was Mr Frank Barnfield, and signalman Mr Ernest Cook.
	www.cerneysouth.freeserve.co.uk /cerney/specials/railway.htm (760 words)

	Railway Operation
		Railways are different from all other transport systems in that the routes of the trains are determined by the road, not by the driver; trains cannot take evasive action or move to avoid one another.
		All of this is rendered unnecessary with continuous track circuits and semi-automatic signals (controlled jointly by the signalman and by the track circuits).
		Essential to railway operation are the common mobile signals (a very useful French term, absent in English) represented by hand, flag and lamp signals, flags and lamps carried by trains, locomotive whistle signals and communicating signals.
	www.du.edu /~etuttle/rail/block.htm (10648 words)

	Dingwall South signal box
		In later years, Dingwall was the only station north of Inverness that had a separate signalman in each box - most were worked by one man and were more of a ground frame than a block post.
		Most of the single lines of the Highland Railway were worked by Tyers' tablet instruments, but these were often hidden away in the station buildings.
		The similar box to this at Dingwall North had to be replaced after fire damage in 1963, but the South box soldiered on through to 1988, although it had ceased to serve as a block post some five years earlier.
	www.signalbox.org /gallery/sc/dingwallsouth.htm (10648 words)

	Collision at Arnside between goods and passenger trains.13 th May 1880. Board of Trade report.
		into the causes of a collision which occurred on the 13th May at Arnside station on the Furness Railway.
		James Bispham states,- I have been 4 years a signalman, and have been at Arnside ever since the branch was opened.
		The loop points on the branch for the double junction are between the station platform and the junction, and 87 yards from the signal-cabin which is opposite to the junction.
	home.clara.net /gw0hqd/bumps/130580/130580.htm (10648 words)

	Railway
		Under the Railways Act 1921 (11 and 12 Geo.V, Ch.55, 19th August 1921) the Midland and South Western Junction was absorbed by the Great Western Railway as from 1st July 1923; actual control by the G.W.R. started on 29th October 1923.
		The Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway was authorized by Act of Parliament 44 and 45 Vic.
		Porter under him was Mr Frank Barnfield, and signalman Mr Ernest Cook.
	www.cerneysouth.freeserve.co.uk /cerney/specials/railway.htm (760 words)

	Control Command & Signalling
		This Standard defines the requirements of signalling lockout systems provided for the protection of personnel on or near the line which needs the co-operative action of signalman and user.
		This document defines the mandatory requirements for the provision of lineside signals and the sequences in which signal aspects shall be presented to train drivers, in respect of plain line, diverging junctions and for bi-directional lines.
		This document sets out the requirements necessary to ensure that the visibility and alignment of signals, and signs that perform the function of signals, are not adversely affected during the life of the equipment.
	rgsonline.co.uk /docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-32 (1378 words)

	The East Lancashire Railway - Signalling (Operations)
		Thus, when a train train arrives in Ramsbottom the Signalman inserts the token it has carried into the machine there, immediately allowing another one to be taken out at Bury for the next train.
		The railway is now single line with passing loops, so new control systems have been required.
		This involves two electrically interlocked machines for each section, one at each end, allowing the release of one token and then preventing any further being issued until the first one is returned to a machine.
	www.east-lancs-rly.co.uk /sigops.html (550 words)

	Swanage Railway News Gallery Page 182
		Because of the historic importance of this development on the Swanage Railway we have decided to create a number of photo reports in addition to the Press Release page which should be read for further detail.
		Alan is Swanage Railway's signalling inspector and Railtrack Bournemouth area Deputy Signalling Manager.
		This first photgraph shows a token being handed over from the Class 33 diesel loco to the signalman, Mike Whitwam.
	www.swanagerailway.co.uk /news182.htm (280 words)

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