Companies' Programmes for 1938 in Britain London.
Dec. 29.
The programmes of railway companies for 1938 will include a number of extensions of the improvements ready carried out to the signalling equipment of parts of their systems, with a view to reducing still further the risk of human error, and increasing the safety of railway travel, The substitution of coloured light signals for the semaphore type is one of the principal improvements On the Great Western Line. a device invented by members of the staff for, automatic train control already in use over a considerable length of the routes, and will be extended to the whole of the main line routes, amounting to 2.840 miles.—Wireless through Reuter
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