. Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration . m*r- ia jft. _J ..•... ■.i-,-i-J^_e=K HOME SIGNAL. my signalling apparatus by day consisted of a board which I had to turn to let either the Leeds or the Normanton train go and, at night, I had simply a bonfire of coals burning, which, by the light it gave, told the driver of an approaching SIGNALS. 275 train whereabout on the line he was. It wasnt really a signalat all, but simply a fire. There was no back signal of anykind. For several years the only signal on the Stockton and Hartle-pool was a candle placed in a window of th
. Our iron roads: their history, construction and administration . m*r- ia jft. _J ..•... ■.i-,-i-J^_e=K HOME SIGNAL. my signalling apparatus by day consisted of a board which I had to turn to let either the Leeds or the Normanton train go and, at night, I had simply a bonfire of coals burning, which, by the light it gave, told the driver of an approaching SIGNALS. 275 train whereabout on the line he was. It wasnt really a signalat all, but simply a fire. There was no back signal of anykind. For several years the only signal on the Stockton and Hartle-pool was a candle placed in a window of the station, its presenceindicating to the driver that he was to stop, and its absencethat he might go on. On the Stockton and Darlington and theNewcastle and Carlisle lines there were no signals, and therewere none on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway when itwas opened. It was not until the year 1834 that the firstattempt towards establishing signals was made on the Liverpooland Manchester, in the simple expedient of fixing an ordinarylamp to the top of a post appr
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