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Forum: Railway Forum TV Discussion 10th December 2020, 15:53
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Posted By Beeyar Wunby
Well semaphore signals belong to the era of...

Well semaphore signals belong to the era of Absolute Block - which is a time when there were signal boxes everywhere. Sometimes there were 3 or even 5 boxes at one station alone, if the traffic was...
Forum: Railway Forum TV Discussion 6th December 2020, 14:10
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Posted By Beeyar Wunby
Well Steve, it still exists, so you can. One like...

Well Steve, it still exists, so you can. One like it featured in an episode of the The Big Bang Theory where the proponents bought it accidently on Ebay. The show's production wanted to use the real...
Forum: Railway Forum TV Discussion 3rd December 2020, 18:58
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Posted By Beeyar Wunby
Further to the above post, here's a real-world...

Further to the above post, here's a real-world example of saggy signals. We used to have a job which didn't go all the way to the sea, but turned a Down train back towards London in the peak. The...
Forum: Railway Forum TV Discussion 3rd December 2020, 18:34
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Posted By Beeyar Wunby
Signalling equipment is designed to be fail-safe....

Signalling equipment is designed to be fail-safe. Although some of the early apparatus was flawed, accidents soon revealed the shortcomings and these were designed out, so semaphore signals will...
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