JUNCTION SIGNALS
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Identifier: ourironroads00will Title: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidourironroads00will">Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration Year: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1883">1883 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1880">1880s) Authors: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorWilliams__Frederick_Smeeton__1829_1886">Williams, Frederick Smeeton, 1829-1886 Subjects: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectRailroads____History">Railroads -- History https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectRailroads____Great_Britain">Railroads -- Great Britain Publisher: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherLondon___Bemrose___sons">London : Bemrose & sons Contributing Library: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorUniversity_of_California_Libraries">University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorMSN">MSN View Book Page: https://archive.org/stream/ourironroads00will/ourironroads00will#page/n296/mode/1up" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Book Viewer About This Book: https://archive.org/details/ourironroads00will" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Catalog Entry View All Images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidourironroads00will">All Images From Book Click here to https://archive.org/stream/ourironroads00will/ourironroads00will#page/n296/mode/1up" rel="noreferrer nofollow">view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: AIXII.IAkY Ok DISTANT SIGNAL. SIGNALS. 277 enormously and scientifically developed. In former times astation-master, or porter, put signals at safety or danger, as thecase might be, while some one else worked the points. Or itmight be that the pointsman ran from his point to the signallever, or back again. Or it might be, and too often it was thecase, that the signals were v< . properly worked at all ; thepointsman, perhaps, was fully ccupied in pulling the one lever,and could not get at the other; or the signalman might vainly Text Appearing After Image: JUNCTION SIGNALS. trust to the pointsman doing his duty and give the signal ofsafety when danger was imminent. Points and signals mightthus be, and too often were, in direct contradiction, and thedriver, relying on the safety which the lowered arm or thewhite light falsely bespoke, rushed confidently on his headlongway, to wake—if he ever woke at all—amid the crash ofshattered carriages and the shrieks and groans of the woundedand the dying. Now what with home and starting signals ; OUR [RON Roads. distance, or, as they are called, distant signals, sometimes atenormous distances ; speaking instruments ; repeating signals ;intermediate repeaters ; light indicators with which, in effect,the signalmen can sec along curved cuttings, and through brick walls ; with fog signals—10,000 of which are exploded by asingle Company in less than one foggy month—and with anic system which anticipates and follows the movements ofevery train in every part of its career, we have a completenessof Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. -
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