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Description:In 1887 John Ruskin described railways as "the most hideous things now extant, animated and deliberate earthquakes, destructive of all wise social habit or possible natural beauty, carriages of poor souls on the ridges of their own graves." The task of preventing these poor souls from slipping off the ridges has fallen to railway signals since the first lines were laid in the pioneering days of the 1830s.It is this story which Richard Blythe tells here. He explains how signals looked and how they worked. He also traces the development of various types of automatic signalling, describing the gradual evolution of the complex electrical interlocking systems and four-aspect colour light signals from the earliest example, reputed to be a candle burning in the window of a point watchman's house.The book is fully illustrated with five coloured and thirty-five black and white drawings by Dick Hart throughout the text.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Danger Ahead: the Dramatic Story of Railway Signalling. To get started finding Danger Ahead: the Dramatic Story of Railway Signalling, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 132

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Publisher: Newman Neame

Release: 1951

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Description: In 1887 John Ruskin described railways as "the most hideous things now extant, animated and deliberate earthquakes, destructive of all wise social habit or possible natural beauty, carriages of poor souls on the ridges of their own graves." The task of preventing these poor souls from slipping off the ridges has fallen to railway signals since the first lines were laid in the pioneering days of the 1830s.It is this story which Richard Blythe tells here. He explains how signals looked and how they worked. He also traces the development of various types of automatic signalling, describing the gradual evolution of the complex electrical interlocking systems and four-aspect colour light signals from the earliest example, reputed to be a candle burning in the window of a point watchman's house.The book is fully illustrated with five coloured and thirty-five black and white drawings by Dick Hart throughout the text.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Danger Ahead: the Dramatic Story of Railway Signalling. To get started finding Danger Ahead: the Dramatic Story of Railway Signalling, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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