Talk:Thirsk rail crash (1892)
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[edit] Closing Lever
Many signal boxes are fitted with closing levers, particularly boxes that are there for headway purposes rather than in continual use for say shunting or for a junction.
Had Manor House cabin been one of these, then the ill signalman would have been able to close the box, while trains continued to operate between the boxes on either side, albeit at longer headways.
Closing a box because the signalman is ill or otherwise indisposed is entirely within the rules, and quite safe.
Tabletop 03:51, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
- In this regard, the evidence of Signals Inspector Pick, in the facsimilies of the statements in The Railways Archive site is instructive. "Switching out" a signal box normally requires all scheduled trains to be notified in advance, so that they are aware of the change in arrangements. If Manor House signal box had been "switched out" as an emergency measure, trains would have to be stopped (at Northallerton, or York Station if northbound), and warned that the cabin and its signals were no longer protecting traffic. Also, there may have been delays imposed by the extra length of the block left by the absence of Manor House. I may put some of this into the article, if it can be summarised. HLGallon (talk) 01:52, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
