The first principles of railway signalling
Subtitle: Including an account of the legislation in the U.K. affecting the working of railways and the provision of signalling and safety appliances
By: by C. B. Byles.
Edition: 2nd.ed.
Publisher: Railway Gazette
Published: 1918
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Notes: Author credited as “Signal engineer, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1897–1911. Signal engineer, New South Wales Government Railways. Formerly Special Lecturer in Railway Economics in the University of Manchester”
Table of contents: label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 1
title: Introduction and Historical Retrospect; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 7
title: The Growth of the Signalling System; label: Chapter 3
pagenum: 20
title: The Theory of the Signalling System; label: Chapter 4
pagenum: 29
title: The Outdoor Fixed Signals; label: Chapter 5
pagenum: 42
title: The Block Telegraph System; label: Chapter 6
pagenum: 59
title: The Working of Single Lines; label: Chapter 7
pagenum: 71
title: Government Control—Legislation 1839–1878; label: Chapter 8
pagenum: 79
title: Government Control—Later Legislation; label: Chapter 9
pagenum: 85
title: Apparatus; label: Chapter 10
pagenum: 96
title: The Problem of the Distant Signal; label: Chapter 11
pagenum: 108
title: Power and Automatic Signalling; label: Chapter 12
pagenum: 120
title: The Elimination of the Human Element; label: Appendix 1
pagenum: 127
title: Synopsis of legislation affecting the working of the railways and the provision of signalling and safety appliances, 1839–1901; label: Appendix 2
pagenum: 136
title: Railway Clearing House standard block signalling codes