The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-05 00:00:00

INGALL'S RAILWAY SIGNALS.

A private view of some inventions, by which Mr.
Ingall, of Throgmorton-street, proposes to prevent
railway accidents and :collisions, was given yesterday
at the London Tavern, preparatory to exhibiting them
to the public from this day until next Tuesday. Mr.
Edmeades, of the Royal Panopticon, attends for the
purpose of explaining the principle and operation of
these inventions, of which the models are upon a large
scale, and give a very good idea of their working capa-
bilities if applied upon a railway. One of the greatest
causes of collision arises between goods and passenger
trains. The only protection now used is not to start one
train until the other has preceded it several minutes, so
that it may be assumed to be out of danger. By means
of Mr. Ingall's train-indicator the train itself is made to
register its progress, between station and station, each mile
it passes over ; so that the station-master can tell at any
minute precisely were the train is, and thus prevent all
possibility of collision. The apparatus by which this is
proposed to be effected seems simple and well adapted
to its purpose.

Another invention, of great importance to the public,
is intended to enable passengers to communicate with
the guard. In whatever compartmentthey may be placed
they would have the power of throwing up a signal from
the carriage roof, while also exciting notice by means of
an air whistle worked by a piston attached to a car-
riage-wheel. Means are provided, by which the guard
on having his attention thus called to any part of the
train, could, in the first instance, communicate with the
passenger, and then, if necessary, by means of a second
whistle, with the driver. By another of Mr. Ingall's inven-
tions the engine-driver has power to turn himself off from
one line of rails to another, and so prevent the accidents
that sometimes occur either from a sudden impediment to
the switch, where the switchman has no power to turn it,
or else is liable to let it slip while a train is passing, and so
turn over the carriages. Mr. Ingall has further invented
a self-acting signal-post, whereby a train will register
the time it has passed, whether five, ten, or fifteen mi-
nutes. The great object of all these inventions is to
have everything, as far as possible, self-acting, so that
too great power shall not be placed in one man's hands ;
and the extent to which the railway has now super-
seded every-,,other mode of locomotion makes the means
by which the possibility may be lessened of accidents
occurring a matter of general interest and importance,
Without pretending to decide whether Mr. Ingall has
fully succeeded in the laudable object to which he has
devoted so much time and ingenuity, we can safely re-
commend all who feel interested in the subject to visit
the exhibition of models and drawings at the London
Tavern, and hear the clear explanations offered by Mr.
Edmeades.

The ordinary French steam-pack et, which left Con-
stantinople on the 26th, arrived at Marseilles yester-
day (Wednesday) with despatches from the C rimea,
which will probably reach London at an early hour on
Friday morning. _

The electric telegraphs lately invented by Chevalier
Bonelli for making trains communicate with each other
while they are running, and thus preventing collisions,
are now being established on the Turin and Truffarello
railway line, with a view to test the utility of the in-
vention.

GREAT WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Captain Bulkeley has
retired from the hoard ; but not, we are glad to say,
from the service of the company. The gallant gentle-
man, whose exertions in the organisation of the excur-
sion system to the west are not yet forgotten, has un-
dertaken the management of the coal traffic, so that
every possible outlet on the line may be male available
for this increasing source of revenue.—Railway Times.
THE NEW TRANSFER DRAUGHTS to obviate the risk long
complained of by the importing houses of London, in
being compelled to make all duty payments at the Cus-
toms in bank-notes, will be issued by the Bank of Eng-
land on Monday next to such of the various banking
firms as may be disposed to accommodate their cus-
tomers with them. Under this system a firm having
duties to pay will be able to send a crossed check for the
amount to their bankers, who will give it for one of these
new transfer draughts on the Dank of England, payable
to the Customs only, and which will immediately be itc*
cepted by them as cash,