Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Railway Signal Co

From Graces Guide
January 1896.
Exhibit at the National Railway Museum.
Exhibit at the National Railway Museum.
1900.
1902. Electric Signalling on the London and North Eastern Railway.
December 1906.
1908.
1911.
1918.
February 1929.
1943.
Signal lever at Washford Station, West Somerset Railway
1967.

Railway Signal Company of Caxton House, Westminster (1910)

of Fazakerley, Liverpool.

1881 Business established (see advert)

1883 Installed interlocking signals for new platforms at Talbot Road Station, Blackpool[1]

1886 Exhibited railway signals at the Liverpool Exhibition, winning a gold medal (see advert)

Telegraphic block instrument, featuring Webb and Thompson's Miniature Train Staff, was made by the Railway Signal Co., Liverpool[2]

1922 Manufactured signal interlock equipment

By 1959 was a subsidiary of Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co, mainly concerned with mechanical signalling, largely used on single lines, for which demand had fallen substantially.

Equipment seen on the Snowdonia National Railway (2007).

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer /10/19
  2. [1] Science Museum