A NEW RAILROAD SIGNAL.
A new English system of railway signalling places a train in motion in constant communication with stations ahead or behind. A light insulated metal rail extends from one station to another in the middle of the track, and is connected by wires with batteries and telegraphic instruments at each station. Trailing runners or drags from the engine and the guard’s van are made to rest on the central rail, the runners being connected with the batteries and signalling instruments, enabling constant communication to bo kept up between the engineer and guard, or with the station at either end of the line. A suspended runner or drag hangs under each car in such position that the pulling of a cord by a passenger in the car allows it to drop—thus transmitting the signal of danger or alarm to the engineer and to each station in the circuit. Another part of the invention provides a means of exactly locating the position of the train at any moment. To communicate with distant points from the oar of a flying express train is a feat worthy of this age of progress.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1905, 2 April 1880, Page 3
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191A NEW RAILROAD SIGNAL. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1905, 2 April 1880, Page 3
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