VICE is (a maybe exclusively) railway telegraph code still in use as well, I think. Confuses outsiders.
Pencils have never contained lead - apart from maybe in the paint on the outside! The writing medium has always been graphite, aka blacklead. You have not suggested an obsolete term, but a misunderstanding instead.
I would say the "E". There must still be a footplate (floor) in a cab!
I think you are right and I had forgotten, so both letters are wrong now. Engineers are not people who drive things, or even people who can work a lathe. (Some engineers can, though.)
Spelling connection as connexion is also obsolete nowThe GWR used to like this for "train connexion at junction". It went along with "tickets must be shewn" covered above. Language does change.
The various terms corridor, gangway and vestibule get used interchangeably. Open saloon stock, now normal, used to get called Centre Corridor stock. Traditionally you had all three, or none, on a coach. One that has disappeared is calling a single compartment a "Carriage".
Is the phrase "cheap day return" now used on any tickets? I still think of offpeak day return tickets under those iconic words.
Indeed - it took one's mind off the Lad's claim that a train from Waterloo was passing Cheam!
Also 'Clockwork Orange' from the advent of that stock (1979/80).
I have always known a set of 'switches' as a set of 'points' - it is less ambiguous in electrical terms. TOCs/NR/NRE still usually refer to points failures as just that.
Yes - the presence of old signs isn't necessarily a fair indicator of obsolescence in the same way that is the current usage of terms, the meaning of which have become obscure or irrelevant.
Yes, and, worryingly, there is a graffiti vandal in the London area whose tag is '10FOOT', indicating a knowledge of that term as well!
Not sure, but the last 'stick' at an underground station was surprisingly recently at Greenford, controlling the centre (ex-GW) bay. It went in about 2015, I think. My picture shows its incongruity with Central line 1990 stock. This was possibly the last regular passenger route semaphore this close to central London by a fair margin, but I may have overlooked somewhere else.
Head-code is still very valid, both in off-train sources and on-train form. My local line (the North Downs) is operated by GWR class 165s and 166s and these display two-number route codes in their destination displays. SWT/SWR 'Desiros' often show their four character codes in their dot-matrix screens, most often ECS 5Xxx codes. SWT/SWR class 455s had two-number route codes on their roller blinds until very recently and probably still do.
I would have thought there would be a case for the use of a single type of sign for all types of level crossings (anf the steam silhouette is probably the most unmistakable) - surely the only reason to want to know that the crossing ahead is un-gated or AHB is to be able to prepare to drive round the half barriers or simply straight 'through' the lights at an un-gated one. Efforts to persuade drivers to respect crossings might be aided by not giving them notice of the opportunity to take the risk.
No no no no no no no. All the noes.
The switches are only some of the elements of a set (or 'end') of points.
Exactly. Never.
And all of these articles refer to it as "the Subway"!