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Old 29th April 2021, 03:51
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Good luck with that.
I have some French SNCF signalling information, and some of it is definitely weird.
The mechanical signals definitely are strange beasties.
You might need to look for telegraph poles and count them to time the train speed.
Most USA and Aussie working time tables during the steam era had a table at the rear denoting the various train speeds from the number of telegraph poles passed in a given time.
Very few of our soot belchers had speedos.
Mind you, most of our soot belcher hoggers knew when they were going a tad fast when the loco began knocking on the curves.
We only have half and full km pegs (half and full mile pegs back in the sooty times) displayed along the perway here.
Steve.
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