Hang on, B pulled of his home and starting before clearing with C? Is that right?

Was a bull

Is the cow 4 legged or 2 legged?

Thanks, cow. Were having cheeseburgers for lunch on the train.

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what code do they use if a train is supposed to stop at the next station? or do they even have a code for that? i ask because i live in america but i model british railways which is getting expensive. i want to incorporate the signaling into my model railway for when my buddies come over so we can all be involved.

those signal box parts must be knackard if they never get a break

Imagine Network Rail today. Health and Safety , Hard Hats , Gloves , Safety Glasses , Hi-Viz Uniform , Ear Defenders and Steel Toecap Boots . . Have I forgotten anything ?

Marvellous

The Mozart was going faster than the trains

Thank you Mr Cholmondely-Warner Not at all Grayson

L M S Looks Money Status That was one red pilled railway

The Line to Windermere is just one long siding now and a supermarket sits across the track where the buffers used to be.

That cow has know idea what trouble it caused, that’s cows for you!!!

Is that you Arthur, there’s a cow on the line, I think what was really said was ‘Arthur there’s a f***ing on the f***ing line

Glad I didn’t have a job in a a signal box , I sure as hell would of f***ed it up

2:32 " What's this a cow ? I'll soon settle her. Be off be off ! "

Some award winning acting 😂 love these old films

The cow is a better actor than the lad holding her anyway!

A very respected. Gentlemen lives here.

Da ilha de Sódor .

Parece A ferrovia de Sir thopan Hatt

What was my wife doing on the line? she was supposed to be shopping for beer for me

The States were doing that fully automatically for decades before that!

Milk Train at 4:47.............Wonderful..... Remember travelling on these, (there was usually a coach / brake attached)........overnight and into the early hours. An indication that you could always get somewhere on our railways in the past. James Hennighan Yorkshire, England

This film highlights the falling standards of today's farmers. How many farmers today do you see wearing a suit while taking a cow for a walk :)

the signalman in box A looks like dick dastardley

Fascinating video; these LMS training films are really very good. One thing that caught my eye was the 'Saxa Salt' wagon in the sidings at the station with the cow.

I wish the rail staff were a bit more descriptive about where the cow was to be found. The classic block signalling is still a foundation of how it is done:-)

2:46 "Oi! there's a cow on the line" lol ."Oi! watch out for that lump of coal my fireman's just thrown at your skull, you rude signalman!

5:18, what's the game the girls play?

Would've loved to have worked on these. Much better than all the 'electronic' throw-away stuff of today!

Thats a sackable offence in this country...

Excelent material! Thaks a lot! One of my favorites. Regards from Buenos Aires.

@derail14 Chain and buffer, not link and pin. Very different systems.

6am to 2pm just like mine! except we use the 24 hr clock now, tut tut

@camsprocketpinion nor hi-vis!

@derail14 No pilot/cow catcher because farm animals are fenced in and there aren't many wild animals in the UK that are bigger than foxes. Headlamps were carried at night but there's not a lot of use for them in the daytime, just like on your car. No Janney/knuckle couplers because trains weren't heavy enough to need them, though some modern stock has them.

Those signalmen sound like Daleks when they announce the meaning of the bell signal they've just sent!

i travelled the jungle line in Malaysia a couple of years back from K/L in the south to KB in the north. All BR standard line and still using semaphore signals on a single line. Anyhow we stopped for an hour at one point and when I ventured up to the engine driver (the trip was 10 hrs and i'd curried up a friendship over the hrs)..- it turned out they had 'forgot' the token key at the last stop and had sent a kid on a bike back to get it - lol....

@whitewingsrich hello a light engine was 2 then 3 bells so like this ** *** freight trains varied as to wether they were braked( air) or had a brake van but cant remember think 1 then 4 bells was with brake van and an engine with brake van on own 1 1 3 hope that helps

I worked as a signalman in an old lms box in the sixties and remember that when) 2 bells) train on line was sent you didnt have to call attention first( one bell)and it was replied and nothing was electronically locked, if a box refused your train you placed a metal collar over the signal lever so you couldnt pull it if you forgot.

I could never figure why brit locomotives never had pilot beams & headlights & also why they never adpoted janny couplers as those link & pin things are very dangerous?????

this video gives the impression that us signallers are quite intelligent,more of this illusion please

Click, ding! Click, click, click, click; ding, ding ding ding!

lol i love these film all the poor acting and the way that cow looks just funny some times

@interception7 The Home will only be mechanically locked by any points in front of it when they are set correctly, or electrically locked by track circuits in front of it. The Distant will be mechanically locked by the Home and Starter, and can only be cleared when the Home and Starter are showing clear. Then the Signalman can return the Distant to Caution, then the Home, then the Starter, as the rear of the train passes each signal complete with tail lamp.

@interception7 The Starting Signal will be electrically locked. The electric lock will release when the Bobby at Box B accepts the train and moves the needle to "Line Clear". The Bobby at Box A can then clear his Starter. As the train passes Box A, he will send Train Entering Section. That is the que for Box B to put their needle to "Train On Line". Once the rear of the train has passed the Starter the Signalman at A can return it to danger.

I have a question: Are the levers for the semaphores (starting, home, distant) locked and can only be pulled when the next signal box move the needle to Line Clear? Similarly to when he is putting the semaphores back into Danger position, once the signal box moves its needle to Train on Line, he can then push back the levers to return the Signals to Danger position?

@blaster2012 American trains never stopped for cows... if they had they never would have gotten anywhere on time. We just put "cowcatchers" on the front of engines, and the farmer sent a bill to the claims department, which might have been paid, if he was lucky.