North American and continental European signalling
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North American and continental European signalling
I have to confess myself completely ignorant of signalling systems in north America and continental Europe. I get the sense that they are different from the UK system (which has basically spread itself to southern and eastern Africa and many other parts of the world which suffered under British colonial influence). Am I right in thinking that they have signals indicating speed, rather than the British system where each signal that is not at danger usually tells you something about the signal ahead?
I tried a quick Google but didn't get the right keywords. Any hints from our members in those regions?
I tried a quick Google but didn't get the right keywords. Any hints from our members in those regions?
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Re: US and continental European signalling
OK, in some ways I've answered my own question by finding the right keywords to get some sensible feedback from Google. But I'd still be interested to hear from those who have practical experience of north American and continental European signalling systems how they differ from the British variety.
Here are a few resources for France:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_railway_signalling
http://www.sh1.org/sncf/index.htm
http://www.carreweb.fr/signalisation_en.html
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/railway/french.htm
And more generally across Europe:
http://www.carreweb.fr/european-railway ... ng_en.html
Here are a few resources for France:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_railway_signalling
http://www.sh1.org/sncf/index.htm
http://www.carreweb.fr/signalisation_en.html
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/railway/french.htm
And more generally across Europe:
http://www.carreweb.fr/european-railway ... ng_en.html
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Re: US and continental European signalling
And for the USA.
Wikipedia says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Amer ... ad_signals
http://www.lundsten.dk/us_signaling/index.html
Wikipedia says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Amer ... _signalingThe US and Canada departed from UK practice wherein a semaphore blade is devoted to each route (Route Signaling). North American practice is to group routes by speeds and use a single blade for, say, "medium speed" regardless of the number of routes involved (Speed Signaling).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Amer ... ad_signals
http://www.lundsten.dk/us_signaling/index.html
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Re: US and continental European signalling
We have been having an interesting discussion on the British Railways Yahoo group in the past few weeks discussing signalling and operating methods in North America and UK.
Note always use North America not America/USA as they upset our friends in Canada.
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/BritishRailways/
Note always use North America not America/USA as they upset our friends in Canada.
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/BritishRailways/
Ian
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Re: North American and continental European signalling
Thanks for the link, Ian. And I've now edited this thread title to reflect those sensitivities.
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Re: North American and continental European signalling
Interesting John.
I was just searching for German signals. I think I found a nice page. Like it is in Germany, most pages in German.
The original link is: Signalkunde
and by using Google translater it is this link: Signalkunde (English)
The page explains the German signals very well.
I think somewhere I've got still the link for Danish signals. Must search for it....
I was just searching for German signals. I think I found a nice page. Like it is in Germany, most pages in German.
The original link is: Signalkunde
and by using Google translater it is this link: Signalkunde (English)
The page explains the German signals very well.
I think somewhere I've got still the link for Danish signals. Must search for it....
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Thanks, Andreas. Very interesting.
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Oh, it needed a long time to find the link about the Danish signal system.
Here is the link: Danish signal description
Here is the link: Danish signal description