Very informative - thanks! I'm a volunteer signalman at Consall on the Churnet Valley Line, where my (simpler!) box controls a passing loop in the station. It;s as yet the only box on the line (though there are several ground frames) so no bell codes, unfortunately.

Having volunteered at Toddington in the early days of the line, I've now watched both signalling videos and have found them informative and very well presented and edited - an excellent depiction of the working of these fascinating steam era boxes. I am trying to replicate in a small way some of these things for model railways, so learning more from these about the Tyler instruments and opening and closing the boxes has been particularly interesting. Thanks for making these wonderful films.

I love trains they are interesting machines

i rmember watching a youtube video of the indian railways where this type of signalling is still used in day to day operations . i saw where a very thin young indian man had to throw with all his might ,hanging on the signal levers with his legs up in the air as he flew across the signal box floor. lots of concentration going on there.

Nice to see a 28XX in Brunswick Green usually watching them pulling coal trains thru Old Oak Common in the 60s they were very grimy Ive seen them on Welsh passenger trains usually if a Warship or Hymek thumper has failed

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Good morning, it is not entirely clear to me whether the old instruments of the electric block with wooden case (Absolute block signaling) or those of the token block were, since ancient times, electrically connected to the red lever that switches the starting signal from Danger to Clear. In other words, in ancient times was it theoretically possible to pull the red lever of the starting signal without having obtained the release of the electric block? Thank you very much for your availability and collaboration

l am a big fan of British signal boxes! This job would be alot of fun once you knew what the hell you were doing!

Outstanding video question what are the tokens made out of looks like some type of steel?

It's quite interesting for me to compare this box to the old electro-mechanical ones we had in Germany. The principle is quite similar, but from a technical point of view there are a lot of differences. This shows how a route for a departing train was set-up over here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b9VnZ9Wnnpasmp8.html The green box with the crank is the block device. It's also used for communication between signal boxes and to lock a route once it is set-up. Unlocking is done automatically once the train passes a certain track circuit. The red levers operate semaphores, the black ones are for points. Here's another gem: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aZd7dtZ1r7a9kZs.html This is another gem from 1951, which explains the automatic signalling of the Hamburg Elevated Railway. The automatically translated subtitles are hard to understand, but even without understanding anything it's more or less obvious what's happening.

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I note all these guys use a rag for switching. Is the switch box so hot they sweat? Grease?

One last thing... I see the controls have a first point, then a full throw point. WHat s the purpose of this? I see him move the control forward to a certain point, pause, then push it all the way to the final position.

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