Railway Signal School

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

189

Date Released

11 Aug 1958

Date recorded

4 Jul 1958

Length of issue (in feet)

756

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Railway Signal School
2. 2Contemporary Distractions
3. 3School for Divers

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

Pathe synopsis: The various railway signalling systems have innumerable built-in safety devices which are practically infallible - but they can only be operated by a highly skilled person. To see how a signalman becomes expert, we go behind the scenes at the Signalling Training School at Clapham Junction, where perfect scale model trains are controlled by equally accurate models of signalling systems.

Keywords

Education and training; Railways

Locations

London; England; Clapham Junction; Waterloo Station; Wandsworth

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

David De Keyser

Length of story (in feet)

215

Story extras:

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