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1930s LMS Film (Sentinels of Safety) - Absolute Block and Semaphore Signalling - Part 2
LMS instructional Railway video "Sentinels of Safety" outlining the Absolute Block Signalling principle. Recorded some time in the 1930's. Features lots of LNWR signal boxes and the staff that used to work them. A fantastic piece of railway history.
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1930s LMS Film (Sentinels of Safety) - Absolute Block and Semaphore Signalling - Part 1
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LMS instructional video "Sentinels of Safety" outlining the Absolute Block Signalling principle. Recorded some time in the 1930's. Features lots of ex-LNWR signal boxes and the staff that used to work them. A fantastic piece of railway history.
1930s LMS Film (Sentinels of Safety) - Absolute Block and Semaphore Signalling - Part 3
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LMS instructional Railway video "Sentinels of Safety" outlining the Absolute Block Signalling principle. Recorded some time in the 1930's. Features lots of ex-LNWR signal boxes and the staff that used to work them. A fantastic piece of railway history.

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  • @billpugh58
    @billpugh58 3 роки тому

    Hang on, B pulled of his home and starting before clearing with C? Is that right?

  • @peterp4661
    @peterp4661 3 роки тому

    Was a bull

  • @GEORGE-jf2vz
    @GEORGE-jf2vz 3 роки тому

    Is the cow 4 legged or 2 legged?

  • @GEORGE-jf2vz
    @GEORGE-jf2vz 3 роки тому

    Thanks, cow. Were having cheeseburgers for lunch on the train.

  • @lyndawilson2618
    @lyndawilson2618 3 роки тому

    O

  • @PalomboDylan
    @PalomboDylan 4 роки тому

    what code do they use if a train is supposed to stop at the next station? or do they even have a code for that? i ask because i live in america but i model british railways which is getting expensive. i want to incorporate the signaling into my model railway for when my buddies come over so we can all be involved.

  • @PalomboDylan
    @PalomboDylan 4 роки тому

    those signal box parts must be knackard if they never get a break

  • @davidreay5911
    @davidreay5911 4 роки тому

    Imagine Network Rail today. Health and Safety , Hard Hats , Gloves , Safety Glasses , Hi-Viz Uniform , Ear Defenders and Steel Toecap Boots . . Have I forgotten anything ?

  • @fordlandau
    @fordlandau 4 роки тому

    Marvellous

  • @galahadthreepwood9394
    @galahadthreepwood9394 4 роки тому

    The Mozart was going faster than the trains

  • @-yeme-
    @-yeme- 4 роки тому

    Thank you Mr Cholmondely-Warner Not at all Grayson

  • @visionist7
    @visionist7 4 роки тому

    L M S Looks Money Status That was one red pilled railway

  • @wideyxyz2271
    @wideyxyz2271 4 роки тому

    The Line to Windermere is just one long siding now and a supermarket sits across the track where the buffers used to be.

  • @blissy1
    @blissy1 4 роки тому

    That cow has know idea what trouble it caused, that’s cows for you!!!

  • @blissy1
    @blissy1 4 роки тому

    Is that you Arthur, there’s a cow on the line, I think what was really said was ‘Arthur there’s a f***ing on the f***ing line

  • @blissy1
    @blissy1 4 роки тому

    Glad I didn’t have a job in a a signal box , I sure as hell would of f***ed it up

  • @storiesfromdifferenteras
    @storiesfromdifferenteras 5 років тому

    2:32 " What's this a cow ? I'll soon settle her. Be off be off ! "

    • @NWRModeller
      @NWRModeller 4 роки тому

      This had to be rev w awdrys inspiration for COWS

  • @bandgeeklee82
    @bandgeeklee82 5 років тому

    Some award winning acting 😂 love these old films

  • @hawkerhellfire9152
    @hawkerhellfire9152 5 років тому

    The cow is a better actor than the lad holding her anyway!

  • @jamesdavis5096
    @jamesdavis5096 5 років тому

    A very respected. Gentlemen lives here.

  • @rosemarypessotti4949
    @rosemarypessotti4949 5 років тому

    Da ilha de Sódor .

    • @Isochest
      @Isochest 4 роки тому

      Mas a realidade no seculo XX nos anos 30!! Tenho saudades dos anos 1960 com os comboios de vapor eu me lembro! Parabens do RU!

  • @rosemarypessotti4949
    @rosemarypessotti4949 5 років тому

    Parece A ferrovia de Sir thopan Hatt

  • @johnmehaffey9953
    @johnmehaffey9953 5 років тому

    What was my wife doing on the line? she was supposed to be shopping for beer for me

  • @OldsVistaCruiser
    @OldsVistaCruiser 6 років тому

    The States were doing that fully automatically for decades before that!

  • @jameshennighan8193
    @jameshennighan8193 6 років тому

    Milk Train at 4:47.............Wonderful..... Remember travelling on these, (there was usually a coach / brake attached)........overnight and into the early hours. An indication that you could always get somewhere on our railways in the past. James Hennighan Yorkshire, England

  • @joanchka5067
    @joanchka5067 6 років тому

    This film highlights the falling standards of today's farmers. How many farmers today do you see wearing a suit while taking a cow for a walk :)

    • @mitchellhogg4627
      @mitchellhogg4627 6 років тому

      Do yourself a favoured spend 10 minutes researching farming as a profession and industry...no farmer in history has ever had money to waste on a suit and most likely never will.

    • @briarbodie8339
      @briarbodie8339 3 роки тому

      instablaster.

  • @TheThecyclist
    @TheThecyclist 11 років тому

    the signalman in box A looks like dick dastardley

  • @JimTLonW6
    @JimTLonW6 12 років тому

    Fascinating video; these LMS training films are really very good. One thing that caught my eye was the 'Saxa Salt' wagon in the sidings at the station with the cow.

  • @Isochest
    @Isochest 12 років тому

    I wish the rail staff were a bit more descriptive about where the cow was to be found. The classic block signalling is still a foundation of how it is done:-)

  • @stillbashingmetal
    @stillbashingmetal 12 років тому

    2:46 "Oi! there's a cow on the line" lol ."Oi! watch out for that lump of coal my fireman's just thrown at your skull, you rude signalman!

  • @michaelXXLF
    @michaelXXLF 12 років тому

    5:18, what's the game the girls play?

  • @waldenhouse
    @waldenhouse 12 років тому

    Would've loved to have worked on these. Much better than all the 'electronic' throw-away stuff of today!

    • @ProfessorPesca
      @ProfessorPesca 4 роки тому

      There are still absolute block signal boxes with mechanical links to semaphore signals on the railway today.

  • @kitsuneproductions2624
    @kitsuneproductions2624 12 років тому

    Thats a sackable offence in this country...

  • @marzilius
    @marzilius 13 років тому

    Excelent material! Thaks a lot! One of my favorites. Regards from Buenos Aires.

  • @ecologist96
    @ecologist96 13 років тому

    @derail14 Chain and buffer, not link and pin. Very different systems.

  • @mountainrover
    @mountainrover 13 років тому

    6am to 2pm just like mine! except we use the 24 hr clock now, tut tut

  • @mountainrover
    @mountainrover 13 років тому

    @camsprocketpinion nor hi-vis!

  • @beeble2003
    @beeble2003 13 років тому

    @derail14 No pilot/cow catcher because farm animals are fenced in and there aren't many wild animals in the UK that are bigger than foxes. Headlamps were carried at night but there's not a lot of use for them in the daytime, just like on your car. No Janney/knuckle couplers because trains weren't heavy enough to need them, though some modern stock has them.

  • @beeble2003
    @beeble2003 13 років тому

    Those signalmen sound like Daleks when they announce the meaning of the bell signal they've just sent!

  • @spottydog4477
    @spottydog4477 13 років тому

    i travelled the jungle line in Malaysia a couple of years back from K/L in the south to KB in the north. All BR standard line and still using semaphore signals on a single line. Anyhow we stopped for an hour at one point and when I ventured up to the engine driver (the trip was 10 hrs and i'd curried up a friendship over the hrs)..- it turned out they had 'forgot' the token key at the last stop and had sent a kid on a bike back to get it - lol....

  • @starstruckone
    @starstruckone 13 років тому

    @whitewingsrich hello a light engine was 2 then 3 bells so like this ** *** freight trains varied as to wether they were braked( air) or had a brake van but cant remember think 1 then 4 bells was with brake van and an engine with brake van on own 1 1 3 hope that helps

  • @starstruckone
    @starstruckone 13 років тому

    I worked as a signalman in an old lms box in the sixties and remember that when) 2 bells) train on line was sent you didnt have to call attention first( one bell)and it was replied and nothing was electronically locked, if a box refused your train you placed a metal collar over the signal lever so you couldnt pull it if you forgot.

    • @juk-hw5lv
      @juk-hw5lv 7 років тому

      starstruckone Operating procedures varied first between each company and then between each BR region, as BR kept operating procedures, equipment and personnel from the companies it absorbed. So LMS did it different than GWR and GWR did it different than SR etc.

    • @chascarpenter5006
      @chascarpenter5006 11 місяців тому

      Yes, i too was expecting two bells reply.

  • @derail14
    @derail14 13 років тому

    I could never figure why brit locomotives never had pilot beams & headlights & also why they never adpoted janny couplers as those link & pin things are very dangerous?????

  • @peng63
    @peng63 13 років тому

    this video gives the impression that us signallers are quite intelligent,more of this illusion please

  • @WingsOTWorld
    @WingsOTWorld 13 років тому

    Click, ding! Click, click, click, click; ding, ding ding ding!

  • @JintySteam1
    @JintySteam1 14 років тому

    lol i love these film all the poor acting and the way that cow looks just funny some times

  • @kitsuneproductions2624
    @kitsuneproductions2624 14 років тому

    @interception7 The Home will only be mechanically locked by any points in front of it when they are set correctly, or electrically locked by track circuits in front of it. The Distant will be mechanically locked by the Home and Starter, and can only be cleared when the Home and Starter are showing clear. Then the Signalman can return the Distant to Caution, then the Home, then the Starter, as the rear of the train passes each signal complete with tail lamp.

    • @robertbilling6266
      @robertbilling6266 5 років тому

      The side effect of this is that the home and starter are back locked when the distant is off.

  • @kitsuneproductions2624
    @kitsuneproductions2624 14 років тому

    @interception7 The Starting Signal will be electrically locked. The electric lock will release when the Bobby at Box B accepts the train and moves the needle to "Line Clear". The Bobby at Box A can then clear his Starter. As the train passes Box A, he will send Train Entering Section. That is the que for Box B to put their needle to "Train On Line". Once the rear of the train has passed the Starter the Signalman at A can return it to danger.

  • @interception7
    @interception7 14 років тому

    I have a question: Are the levers for the semaphores (starting, home, distant) locked and can only be pulled when the next signal box move the needle to Line Clear? Similarly to when he is putting the semaphores back into Danger position, once the signal box moves its needle to Train on Line, he can then push back the levers to return the Signals to Danger position?

    • @ProfessorPesca
      @ProfessorPesca 4 роки тому

      Not sure about in those days but nowadays on absolute block lines the section signal (referred to here as starting signal) is locked until you get a line clear from the box in advance. The home signal is yours to pull off as much as you want though.

  • @michaeljy
    @michaeljy 14 років тому

    @blaster2012 American trains never stopped for cows... if they had they never would have gotten anywhere on time. We just put "cowcatchers" on the front of engines, and the farmer sent a bill to the claims department, which might have been paid, if he was lucky.