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Stokers and pokers : $b or, The London and North-Western Railway, the electric telegraph, and the railway clearing-house
Head, Francis Bond, Sir
London and North-Western Railway; Railway Clearing House (London, England); Telegraph -- Great Britain
13. At many of the principal Stations, Auxiliary Signals, worked by
a wire, are placed 500 yards in advance of the Station Signal Post.
These Auxiliary Signals are intended to warn the Enginemen and Guards
in thick weather (when the main Signal cannot be well seen at the
usual distance) of the =Red= being turned on at the Station, and for
this purpose a =Green= Signal is shown at the Auxiliary Post. Except
when the Red Signal is shown at the Station, no Signal whatever is
shown by the Auxiliary. The Enginemen are not to depend solely upon
the Auxiliary Signals; but they may always depend on the =Red= Signal
being on at the Station whenever the =Green= is seen at the Auxiliary.
TRAIN SIGNALS.
14. Every Engine with a Passenger Train shall carry a =White= Light
on the Buffer Plank by Night, and every Cattle, Merchandize, or Coal
Train, a =Green= Light.
15. In order to distinguish the Trains while running on the Liverpool
and Manchester Branch, the Grand Junction Passenger Trains will carry
=two= White Lights, and the Merchandize Trains =two= Green Lights,
between Liverpool and Warrington, and the North Union Passenger
Trains will carry a =Blue= instead of a White Light on the Buffer
Plank of Passenger Trains, and a =Blue= in addition to the Green
Light on the Merchandize and Coal Trains.
16. Every Train, after sunset or in foggy weather, shall carry one or
more =Red Tail Lights=, according to the description of the Train.
17. The Guard of the Train is responsible for attaching the Tail
Lamps on the last carriage or waggon, and the Engine-Driver and
Fireman for placing the Lamp on the Engine. When a carriage is
detached at a Junction, care must be taken to see that the Tail Light
is removed, and re-attached to the Train.
18. The Tail Signal must be inspected at =every Station=; and in the
event of the Train being brought to a stand on the Main Line from any
cause, the Guard must take care that no one stand before the Tail
Lamp, so as to prevent its being seen.
19. A =Red Board= or Flag by Day, or an =extra= Tail Lamp by Night,
hung at the back of an Engine or Train, denotes that an =extra Train=
is to follow.
SPECIAL SIGNALS.
NEWTON JUNCTION.
20. By Night a =Green= Light, visible from either of the Liverpool
and Manchester Main Lines, denotes that the points are open for
Trains going towards Warrington.
21. When a Grand Junction Train from Liverpool is approaching the
Junction Points at Newton Junction, at the same time that a Train
from Manchester for Liverpool is also approaching, Signals must be
given to =both Trains to stop=; and if there is any doubt that there
will be danger of collision in the Grand Junction Train crossing the
Liverpool South Line, the Pointman must =not= turn the points for the
Line to Warrington, but must let the Grand Junction Train run past
the points towards Manchester.
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