The Position Light

A blog devoted to explaining the ins and outs of North American railroad signaling, past, present and future. This blog seeks to preserve through photo documentation the great diversity and technical ingenuity of 20th century signaling and interlocking hardware and technology. Related topics cover interlocking towers and railroad communications infrastructure.

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Showing posts with label British. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British. Show all posts
Sunday, February 16, 2025

It's Electric! - The Westinghouse Brake and Signal Style L Frame

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Every so often I mention the Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Company which was the result of the British Commonwealth's Westinghous...
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Sunday, July 31, 2022

A Tale of Two British Railway Signaling Public Information Films

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 The UK is well known for a certain style of public information film that were professionally produced up through the 1980's. A couple g...
Friday, September 7, 2018

1960's British Branch Line Cab Ride Films

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So while this is a rail signaling blog and not a railfan video blog, sometime I like to highlight sets of videos that really show off the si...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Liverpool Lime Street Signalbox Closed

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One of the last two active Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Company power frames on British Rail was taken out of service on July 13th an...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Swindon Power Signalbox Restoration

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Hopefully most of you are familiar with the excellent job the crew at HARRIS tower has done reactivating its US&S Model 14 interlocking ...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

British Power Signal Box Video Tours

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On a British signaling forum I frequent, a signaler known as Ian Ives uploaded a number of VHS video tours he made of some London area Briti...
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