Signal Box Block Instruments

[SteamontheMet]

Hi everyone,

Sorry if this has been mentioned before,

Does anyone know if there are Signal Boxes in the UK that still use Block Instruments with Bells.

I believe that some of the Signal Boxes on the Settle & Carslie Line use them.

I have worked a Block instrument before on a Model Railway and I am interested to know is some still exist on the Real Railways.

 

[Railsigns]

Yes, literally dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of signal boxes around the country still use traditional block instruments.

 

[CarterUSM]

I was taken to dunblane signal box some years ago as part of my guards training and the signalman was belling away the whole time.

 

[TheExmoorBeast]

I must admit I find it impressive that they can remember all of the bellcodes!

 

[GB]

Its one of the first things you learn at signalling school and you use them all the time.

 

[33056]

Its one of the first things you learn at signalling school and you use them all the time.

And you never forget them. Been nearly 20 years since I did any Absolute Block signalling (or even Track Circuit Block with bells), still remember all the bell codes though!

 

[SteamontheMet]

literally dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of signal boxes around the country still use traditional block instruments

Many Thanks

I got a List of all the codes as I tend to work a Signal Box on a Model Railway, Can be quite Confusing when the Instruments are only a few feet apart.

Heres an Example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1hOHKKLcU

 

[ralphchadkirk]

Wait until you work a token machine and block bells on a railway where the signalman is five miles away! It is fun!