BRITISH RAILWAYS
BIG IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME BETTER SIGNALLING EQUIPMENT AUTOMATIC TRAIN CONTROL (Official Wireless) Received Dec. 30. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Dec. 29 The railways companies’ programmes for 1938 include a number or extensions of improvements already carried out t*. the signalling equip--1,1 The substitution of‘coloured light signals for the semaphore l>|»e is one of tire principal improvements. On the Great Western line Ihe device for automatic, train control that, is already in use over a considerable length of the routes will be extended to the whole of the mall line routes, amounting to 2540 miles.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20387, 30 December 1937, Page 7
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