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Definition of Signal box
1. Noun. A building from which signals are sent to control the movements of railway trains.
Definition of Signal box
1. Noun. A building, typically adjacent to or spanning a railway line, from where signals, points and (sometimes) level crossings are controlled. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Signal Box
Literary usage of Signal box
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"This system again is somewhat analogous to the messenger telegraph system described,
the chief difference being that in the one case the signal box is ..."
2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"The signal box is placed so high on the LAMP POST SURMOUNTING A post that the
ordinary small boy can- FIRE signal box. not reach it to turn the handle. ..."
3. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"FIRE signal box ON A STREET I,AMP TOST. The greatest zeal of the fireman is shown
in his efforts to save life, and the records of the department are full of ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"There were four of these miniature " switches " in our signal-box, ... The man
at our signal-box had the sole and complete control over the signal at the ..."
5. Railway Signal Engineering (mechanical) by Leonard P. Lewis (1912)
"CHAPTER VII signal box ARRANGEMENTS The size of a signal box depends on the ...
This gives the length of the signal box as being 8 ft. longer than the ..."
6. Telephones and Telegraphs: 1902: And Municipal Electric Fire Alarm and by United States Bureau of the Census, William Mott Steuart, Thomas Commerford Martin, Arthur Vaughan Abbott, William Mayer, jr (1906)
"While, with the .adoption of the automatic signal box, the speed with which a
fire alarm box was operated no longer depended on the temperament or mental ..."
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