colour-light signals using track circuit – or axle counter – block signalling. It is a development of the original absolute block signalling that is still...
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Railway signalling (BE), or railroad signaling (AE), is a system used to control the movement of railway traffic. Trains move on fixed rails, making them...
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Britannica. "Main Signals". www.railsigns.uk. Solomon, p. 19 Calvert, J.B. "The Origin of the Railway Semaphore." Railways: History, Signalling, Engineering...
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rail transport system, signalling control is the process by which control is exercised over train movements by way of railway signals and block systems to...
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In railway signalling, a token is a physical object which a train driver is required to have or see before entering onto a particular section of single...
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Railway semaphore signal is one of the earliest forms of fixed railway signals. This semaphore system involves signals that display their different indications...
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Mechanical signalling in all States followed British practice using route signalling with slight differences between States. The basic running signal was the...
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the UK route signalling system for junctions. However, as signalling has advanced to meet the requirements of the system, progressive speed signalling is...
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signalling. Signalling in the UK uses route signalling. Most railway systems around the world, however, use speed signalling. Under route signalling,...
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The current French railway signalling system is in force on the Réseau Ferré de France (now SNCF Réseau) since 1930, when the code Verlant was applied...
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Signalling block systems enable the safe and efficient operation of railways by preventing collisions between trains. The basic principle is that a track...
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demonstrating that race conditions can occur in mammal brains as well. In UK railway signalling, a race condition would arise in the carrying out of Rule 55. According...
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Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) is a worldwide professional body for all those engaged or interested in railway signalling and telecommunications...
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Automatic block signaling (ABS), spelled automatic block signalling or called track circuit block (TCB) in the UK, is a railroad communications system...
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Absolute block signalling is a British signalling block system designed to ensure the safe operation of a railway by allowing only one train to occupy...
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Rail transport in Great Britain (redirect from Railways in the UK)
lines, in-cab signalling, new inter-city trains and new high-speed lines. According to historians David Brandon and Alan Brooke, the railways brought into...
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has period signalling, locomotives and rolling stock. The GCR is currently the only double track standard gauge mainline heritage railway in the world...
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engineering Railway signalling Fare collection CCTV Public address Intrusion detection Access control Systems integration In the UK: The Railway Division...
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before passing a signal at danger. Presently, In the UK, only a small percentage of trains (Great Western Railway and Chiltern Railways) are fitted with...
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background (or black on yellow for temporary signs) is displayed in UK railway signalling as a "cancelling indicator" for the Automatic Warning System (AWS)...
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Level crossing (redirect from Railway grade crossing)
intersection where a railway line crosses a road, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over...
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operational signalling and lengthen the up platform to accommodate longer and more frequent train services was completed in 2010. The signalling is operated...
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Transmission Voie-Machine (redirect from TGV Signalling)
information than traditional signalling systems would allow, including track gradient profiles and information about the state of signalling blocks further ahead...
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2000 (S.I.Tooltip Statutory Instrument (UK) 2000/1674) in six railway TSI areas: Control Command and Signalling, Energy, Infrastructure, Maintenance, Operations...
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infrastructure works the railway is restoring the former goods yard, giving much-needed siding space, and putting back full signalling with both semaphore...
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September 2011. Signalling in the Age of Steam, Michael A. Vanns, p.45. Signalling in the Age of Steam, Michael A. Vanns, p.33. Signalling in the Age of...
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end at selected stations. On signalling-based systems, blocks usually start and end at signals. Alternatively, cab signalling may be in use. The lengths...
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Moving block (redirect from Moving block signalling)
In railway signalling, a moving block is a signalling block system where the blocks are defined in real time by computers as safe zones around each train...
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Watercress Line (redirect from Mid-Hants Watercress Railway)
stock. A historic signal box assisted by a grant from the Railway Heritage Trust is installed at Medstead. It provides a hands-on signalling experience for...
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Rail signaller (redirect from Railway signalman)
enclosed workspace known as a signal box, signal cabin or interlocking tower. The principles of British-style railway signalling have changed little since...
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