Southern Signals
Semaphore Signals

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. Three other examples of a signal like this were to be found at Fremington (2) and Ernesettle Sidings, near Bere Ferrers. photograph by Trevor Tupper

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

A yellow shunt dummy at Swanage. This 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 were 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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