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Re: New MoC: Wagon repair shop
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 4 Dec 2000 10:39:19 GMT
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Lar wrote:
> How big are UK Signalboxes??? In the US they're waist high little electrical
> enclosures, no bigger than a refrigerator in most cases, often small enough
> to mount on a telephone pole. 3 or 4 bricks in grey should do you!
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> Signal Towers or Interlocking Towers, or even Yard Control Towers,(in
> increasing size order) those are much bigger, usually 2 stories high with an
> office sized or larger work area and lots of windows on the second story.
> John Neal posted a nice one although it's a bit big for how few windows it
> has.
How about the one in the background of:
http://www.marl.com/lds/Lr/llan-railway.html ,behind Foxcote Manor.
I have a article on its rebuilding, if you want :) Does this answer as to how
big/what Huw is thinking of making?
James (The Eurotrash guy)
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| (...) No, but it does answer that UK signalbox=US tower ... As I suspected. So what do the UK call the little trackside electrical enclosures, then? ++Lar (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) How big are UK Signalboxes??? In the US they're waist high little electrical enclosures, no bigger than a refrigerator in most cases, often small enough to mount on a telephone pole. 3 or 4 bricks in grey should do you! Signal Towers or (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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