Block and Interlocking Signals

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Excerpt from Block and Interlocking Signals: What They Are for What They Do, How They Do It Its construction was very much the same as that used to-day, consisting of a blade pivoted at the top of a pole and capable of being turned through about a quarter of a circle. The colored glasses for giving the night indications were carried in a separate frame pivoted lower down on the pole, instead of being held, as in modern practice, by the casting to which the blade is fastened. The blades for governing train movements in one direction were always put on the same' side of the pole. In this country, the blade projecting on the right-hand side of the signal pole, as looked at from an approaching train, is the one that governs. In England, where all trains run on the left-hand track, signal blades projecting to the left side govern. The signals were Operated under what is called the time interval system that is, not allowing one train to follow another into the block until the lapse of a certain period of time. When a train entered the block the signal was put at danger and kept there for five minutes, when it was pulled to a cautionary position, and after the lapse of five minutes more the signal was cleared, giving the right to the next train to proceed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.