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Post by chrisvandenkieboom on Jun 5, 2012 18:00:32 GMT
How did the signalling on the original (prior to modernisation) C&SLR work? There doesn't seem to be that much information about it.
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Post by mrfs42 on Jun 5, 2012 19:36:36 GMT
Do you mean the 'outdoor' signalling or the 'indoor' signalling?
ie - the signals themselves or how the trains were signalled on the block instruments.
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Post by abe on Jun 5, 2012 19:45:08 GMT
You need to get a copy of The Amazing Electric Tube (Printz Holman). Chapters 4 and 6 cover the early system and changes made to it, and chapter 10 has a useful diagram (p64). Also, The City & South London Railway (T.S.Lascelles) has information (p25-6, p28-30 in the 1987 version are the key pages).
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Post by phillw48 on Jun 5, 2012 21:37:57 GMT
There was a semaphore signal and a signal box at the King William Street terminus. Their remains are visible in old photographs.
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Post by mrfs42 on Jun 5, 2012 23:11:24 GMT
There was a semaphore signal and a signal box at the King William Street terminus. Their remains are visible in old photographs. There was an awful lot more than that at KWS - certainly the later installation there was Evans O' Donnell (same as the Lynton and Barnstaple); Stockwell had many semaphores too - plus bits of the conductor rail worked by the lever frame to stop the engines becoming gapped on the crossover. |
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Post by chrisvandenkieboom on Jun 6, 2012 14:34:17 GMT
Do you mean the 'outdoor' signalling or the 'indoor' signalling? ie - the signals themselves or how the trains were signalled on the block instruments. Outdoor signalling, for instance what was the proceed aspect, were they semaphores or colour light, what did it look like, that sort of thing. |
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Post by mrfs42 on Jun 6, 2012 16:14:37 GMT
It was a mixture of dwarf semaphore and oil-lit mechanical colour light initially.
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Post by chrisvandenkieboom on Jun 6, 2012 16:38:32 GMT
And the signal aspects on the semaphores were like the ones on the mainlines and the colour light ones were like the current LU signalling?
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Post by mrfs42 on Jun 6, 2012 17:48:41 GMT
And the signal aspects on the semaphores were like the ones on the mainlines and the colour light ones were like the current LU signalling? Not quite - when the CSLR opened there was no such thing as a yellow aspect: it was all red/green. There may have been yellows added when Outer Homes were put in certain places, I shall have to check through my UERL traffic notices, time permitting. |
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