| 单词 | home signal |
| 释义 | > as lemmashome signal home signal n. †(a) Telegraphy the telegraphic signal sent from one's own equipment (obsolete); (b) Railways a stop signal marking the end of a section of track and indicating whether or not a train may proceed into a station or to the next section; cf. distant signal n. at distant adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > types of signal system > types of signal switch-signal1838 semaphore signal1845 distance signal1848 home signal1857 block signal1864 dwarf signal1870 distant signal1874 switch-lantern1875 distant1881 spectacle1881 switch-lamp1898 banjo1902 peg1911 1857 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 12 July 8/4 There are three parallel rows of marks impressed on the surface of the paper—the innermost representing the home signal, the next the distant signal, and the third the seconds. 1867 Rep. Accidents on Railways 23/1 in Parl. Papers LXII. 219/1 The station is protected by distant signals in both directions, worked by wires from the east of the passenger platform, and by a home signal of inferior construction. 1889 G. Findlay Working & Managem. Eng. Railway 68 The distant signal is placed at varying distances behind the home signal, according to circumstances. 1940 A. E. Tattersall Railway Signalling i. 16 Home and starting signals only for each direction at stations on single lines which are staff or electric token posts will be necessary. 2001 S. Hall Mod. Signalling Handbk. (ed. 3) 35/1 The first stop signal at a signalbox is known as the Home Signal. At some signalboxes there may be more than one Home Signal, known variously as Outer and Inner Home Signals. < as lemmas |
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