Southern Signals
Semaphore Signals
| Yellow Shunt signals. |
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Screw up your eyes and concentrate! This is the best photo we
have at present of a miniature arm yellow shunt dummy - at Chichester. To make
a movement straight on towards the running lines a driver must first ensure the
dummy is off. To make a movement to the right, staying in the sidings, then he
does not need the dummy to be off. Note that the red dummy to the left is a full round one (see note below). photograph by Trevor Tupper |
| An interesting signal at Chichester This is an elevated
yellow shunt signal with an almost full size arm. Note, however, that as it is
a shunt signal it doesn't have a fishtail end and has a straight black
vertical stripe. There were at least four other examples of a signal like this,
one at Mountfield sidings (just north of Battle), two at Fremington and one at
Ernesettle Sidings, near Bere Ferrers.
photograph by Trevor Tupper |
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| Only a black and white image, but this photograph quite clearly shows one
of the two full height yellow shunt signals at Fremington.
photograph by John Bradbeer |
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A yellow shunt dummy at Swanage. This is a standard Westinghouse dummy as
favoured by the Southern Railway and BR(S) and is the yellow equivalent of the
dummy, shown on a previous page, at Newhaven. Note that in the background is a
red dummy with the white "diamond" indicating that it is not subject
to the provisions of Rule 55.
photograph by Andy Vincent |
| A yellow shunt dummy at Salisbury. This one is a full round
disc, with the spectacle lenses on the left, and is one of a series that was
normally used in conjunction with the pneumatic signalling system. Most yellow
dummies were of the Westinghouse pattern, as in the red dummy above. However,
as these yellow disc signals were not introduced until the late 1920s, the
previously used miniature arms survived in considerable numbers, well into
British Railways days.
photograph by Clive Standen |
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