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A switchboard is for phone calls, not bell signals. You press a key on an instrument on the block shelf to ring the bell, and turn a commutator (often on the same instrument) to send the "line clear" signal. The "train out of section2 signal is two (pause) one, not 2-1-2.

Lookouts for men working on the track were made compulsory by rules made in 1902 under the Railway Employment (Prevention of Accidents) Act 1900: https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php?docID=703 https://vlex.co.uk/vid/prevention-of-accidents-rules-812159417 but you have to register...

No need to imagine it - for instance, here is 2818, now in Swindon museum: https://www.flickr.com/photos/leatherworkingreverend/6314518144

Very few named GWR locos were ever painted black- probably just the surviving 4-4-0s during and after WW2. The GWR was unique among the big four in continuing to paint large passenger locos green throughout the war, although the lining was omitted. A red background to nameplates was a BR...

I have a Winter 1936 WTT for the section. Taking Culworth again, at that time the passenger service was even sparser and weekday departures were: Up Around 7.40 am the 5.30 am from Nottingham to Marylebone via Aylesbury passed Culworth, calling at most other stations 10.51 am to Aylesbury...

What sort of "mechanism" are you looking for? RAIB are reasonable people- email them on [email protected] and your message will get to the appropriate expert.

In summer 1939 the principal train on Sundays was the 11:10 from Paddington, which ran via Westbury and called at Taunton at 13:47 before continuing to Exeter and Plymouth. Extra trains for evacuees would probaly have taken the same route.

Current rule book Module SS1 section 3.4 Guard: If there is no bell or buzzer communication, you must give the 'ready-to-start' signal to the driver by displaying a green handsignal

Yes you do- see the report at https://www.gov.uk/raib-reports/fatal-accident-balham . It was a gantry spanning all four lines, and was closer to the track than it should have been.

RAIB are now asking for witnesses to the events of 14th January. If anyone was at Loughborough or on a GCR train that day, please get in touch: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/raib-witness-appeal-loughborough

RAIB publishes the name of the deceased only if their family is happy for it to appear. Stuart J RAIB (retired)

It doesn't.

Harvil Road bridge is being moved/rebuilt as part of the HS2 project. Hopefully the replacement will have a name that corresponds with current usage.

If the person phoning 999 is asked where they are, and they pass on the information on the plate, confusion will be the result. I'm not sure why people are trying to excuse the incompetence on display here.

The bridge is on Breakspear Road South, not Harefield Road or Breakspear Road which are valid names of other roads in the local area. It is between Ickenham and Harefield, not in South Ruislip. So that part of the information on the bridge plate is just plain wrong, and could result in emergency...