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Derby had this prior to resignalling in 1969. There was a plunger in Station 'A' box beneath the diagram, for the signalman to sound a single-stroke bell throughout the station, once an incoming train was signalled. The number of presses indicated the platform. Even occurred for platform 6...

The OP mentioned the incidence of level crossings in one post. These come in a wide variety of types, some with stop signals, some without. Nearly all private crossings do not, in fact, have stop signals, and not all public road crossings with signals necessarily affect the signalling system...

We are not in touch with reality, apparently. Out of interest, I did a search on Google for "St Blazey railway station closure", and guess what, AI tells me: A different source said: Source: Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology...

But then St Blazey has had a highly effective main line station, namely Par, with no need to bother about connections.

There is another operating train service consideration which needs to be taken into account, and that is potential delays and recovery. Operated in future with a high occupation of the single track, there are inevitably going to be delays, both inherently from the service itself, but also...

Not so surprising as you might think, when you look at the data for Newquay line intermediate stations. If you compare Paddington destinations on the attached matrix of ORR estimated journeys, St Columb Road has by far the greatest journeys, 104 annually compared with 33, 26 or 13 from other...

The current working timetable shows that on Mondays to Fridays, the service is two hourly throughout from May to December. On Saturdays from May to 13 September, the service was two hourly, but with a couple of gaps to permit the through expresses to run. However, on Saturdays from 20th...

Is it actually going to be much different from the current pattern of services? At present, all the two-hourly services call at all stations on demand. Is that to be hourly, or will the request stops be eliminated, that is the question.

If you want a technical overview of what is happening in the fairly near future, see this 2024 presentation from the Permanent Way Institute: . It deals essentially with Leeds to Church Fenton, and does not appear to include much reference to additional tracks apart from pointing to...

That's right for a typical early 7 car train where there was a good proportion of business use, such as on the Eastern region. Subsequently on Eastern, that grew to 5 standard + RC = total 8, and then later 6 standard +RC = 9. On Cross-Country, it was normally 1 first, 1 buffet and 5 or 6...

A few more thoughts on this. Black 5's were always considered to be the best, certainly more so than the B1's, but I think the Halls would run them close. However, when comparing a Black 5 with a Standard 5, the latter always had an edge - someone said they were the equivalent to a class 5½P...

Wait till the train "has come to a stand" rather than "has stopped".

We on BR (Western) did quite a lot of work looking at the St Dennis to Goonbarrow route at the time. I do remember that there were a lot of problems with clearances on that line, and it would not have been an easy or inexpensive job. That said, it was possible, and had there been more money...

As the commentary on the film indicates, it was tested on all kinds of routes. It was certainly tested on the Glasgow - Carlisle Caley route, as the station concerned is definitely Beattock. On the Midland, whilst it was certainly tested at length, it was also in regular service for a time. When...

TVs were very few and far between in 1952, so cinema is more likely for most people to see it. Doesn't follow that it was widely distributed, though, as it is very much a special interest item. May possibly just have been made available in the East Midlands only, as being of local interest.