A signaller, signalman, colloquially referred to as a radioman or signaleer in the armed forces is a specialist soldier, sailor or airman responsible...
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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...
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due to an equipment failure or signaller error and the train was unable to stop before passing the signal. A Signaller SPAR (formerly Category C SPAD)...
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characteristics are costly signals which must be reliable, as they cost the signaller resources that individuals with less of a particular trait could not afford...
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Master aircrew (redirect from Master Signaller)
referred to by different titles depending on their specialisation: Master Signaller (MSig) Master Engineer (MEng) Master Air Electronics Operator (MAEOp)...
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placing the detonators A warning of ongoing engineering works ahead When a signaller or other railway employee requires to stop approaching trains in an emergency...
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was to provide a secure speech link between the train driver and the signaller which could not be overheard by other train drivers. In areas where CSR...
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driver of a train waiting at a signal on a running line must remind the signaller of its presence. Rule 55 was introduced following a spate of accidents...
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Tuberculosis Resting place Albany Museum Occupation Assistant to a disabled railway signalman Notable role Railway signaller Years active 9 Owner James Wide...
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As a result, the signaller set a route which would stop the HST and allow the freight train to cross in front of it. If the signaller had known that the...
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slogans, hand signs, colored clothing, and graffiti to indicate that the signaller favors, or is a member of, the associated gang. Many of these, especially...
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vehicularis) is an early example of this. Later, the terms signals and signaller became words referring to a highly-distinct military occupation dealing...
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Yorkshire Evening Post, until he was called up for national service as a signaller in the Royal Navy. As reported in a radio interview in 2006 on NPR, he...
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flag signalling had developed, and by the Han dynasty (200 BC – 220 AD) signallers had a choice of lights, flags, or gunshots to send signals. By the Tang...
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Navy rating for sailors that specialized in visual communication. See Signaller for more about the roles of Signalmen. A signal lamp (also called an Signal...
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commander and a sergeant as platoon sergeant, accompanied by a platoon signaller and sometimes a platoon medic (full strength of forty men). A section...
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Somme offensive) on 15 September 1916. Bert Chaney, a nineteen-year-old signaller with the 7th London Territorial Battalion, reported that "three huge mechanical...
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as "the exchange of information between individuals, wherein both the signaller and receiver may expect to benefit from the exchange". According to this...
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A US Army signaller assigned to Multi-National Division (North) using a satellite phone near the village of Skugric in 1999...
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Swanton Morley, RAF Hullavington Aircraft used: Avro Anson T.22 No. 1 Air Signallers School RAF (1951-57) Airfields used: RAF Swanton Morley Aircraft used:...
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the signalman. This form of communication is primarily used by naval signallers. This technique of signalling was adopted in the early 19th century and...
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electrical device used to prove the absence of a train on rail tracks to signallers and control relevant signals. An alternative to track circuits are axle...
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Sitting behind him on a howdah, was a signaller, who signalled by waving of a pair of peacock feathers. Above the signaller was the chatras, consisting of progressively...
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evolve because they modify the behaviour of the receiver to benefit the signaller. Signals may be honest, conveying information which usefully increases...
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advent of absolute block signalling, the class-based headcodes allowed signallers to identify and regulate trains properly. On some busy lines, particularly...
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On Imphal front, Sikh signaller operates wireless for British officers, listening to patrols reporting Japanese positions....
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the CIA, according to many accounts, had scrambler devices, infrared signallers, night-vision goggles and weapons. Schmid, Gerhard (11 July 2001). "On...
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term "vice signalling" as a counterpoint to virtue signaling: A vice-signaller boasts about sneaking meat into a vegetarian meal. He will rush on to...
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this story is itself most likely a furphy. In his book Memories of a Signaller, Harold Hinckfuss wrote of the "furphies" or rumours of pending movements...
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transport networks, armed forces, or construction (to direct heavy equipment such as cranes). Many armed forces now use the rank of signaller instead. v t e...
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