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signal box

NOUN
  1. a building from which signals are sent to control the movements of railway trains

How To Use signal box In A Sentence

  • Making any sort of progress is made worse by the gearchange, which is notchy, has too much play in the gearlever and has a throw length last seen on the levers in a Victorian signal box. In Which Dungeekin is Jeremy Clarkson. . .
  • Between the years 1902-1902, there was actually a signal box situated well inside the Woodhead tunnel.
  • A railway station has been rebuilt near the town, featuring a goods yard, a weighbridge and a signal box.
  • There is a signal box at each end, East and West also the Breakdown Vans, ready when they are wanted.
  • Stockport No 2 signal box, built in the 1870s, has 60 levers and is operated manually by two signallers using a system of bells and flashing lights.
  • It was kept in the signal box at Barnoldswick Junction, handed up to the fireman on the footplate as the train passed and handed back when it returned.
  • There is a manned signal box at the crossing and the barriers cover the full width of the road when closed. The Sun
  • Rail enthusiasts rave about its enormous signal box. Times, Sunday Times
  • There were calls for cab radios to link train drivers and signal boxes.
  • Terror gripped the two men as they ran as fast as they could away from the ghostly train towards Elsham signal box.
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