Just want to check LNER practice re buffer stop lights.
My understanding is a red light was displayed at platform-end buffers.
No light was at most others - it being in any case impractical for isolated sidings etc.
But - is that correct? And what about buffer stops in station environs, eg goods yards, where it would have been perfectly possible...?
Buffer-stop lights?
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Re: Buffer-stop lights?
Nutford, not much help specifically regarding LNER practice, but I believe that, more widely, there have been many instances of a white light on such as certain siding buffer stops for many decades, but no idea on any criteria for installation or non- installation.
In much more recent times (approx. last 20 years?), with increasing emphasis on safety risks, formal risk assessments, and a little less reliance on drivers' route knowledge, then where track/depot/resignalling changes, or perhaps post-accident investigations, have been involved, and/or a changeover from oil to electric lights has been done, fewer if any stops have been permitted to be light-less.
One particular point during these later times has been that, while a red light has seemed the more logical light generally, there have been cases of a white being substituted for a red for stops next to or otherwise close to, running lines if there has been any question of a red there being mistaken as a signal light for the running line.
Just possibly, that consideration may have applied over many decades in such circumstances.
In much more recent times (approx. last 20 years?), with increasing emphasis on safety risks, formal risk assessments, and a little less reliance on drivers' route knowledge, then where track/depot/resignalling changes, or perhaps post-accident investigations, have been involved, and/or a changeover from oil to electric lights has been done, fewer if any stops have been permitted to be light-less.
One particular point during these later times has been that, while a red light has seemed the more logical light generally, there have been cases of a white being substituted for a red for stops next to or otherwise close to, running lines if there has been any question of a red there being mistaken as a signal light for the running line.
Just possibly, that consideration may have applied over many decades in such circumstances.
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Re: Buffer-stop lights?
Yep, white lights were used next to running lines. But I believe red in stations.
But as you say, once we had electric lights it was much more feasible to install them away from stations. Back in the 1930s I think they wouldn't be far from a station for the practical reason of lighting them. Just not sure about goods yards...
But as you say, once we had electric lights it was much more feasible to install them away from stations. Back in the 1930s I think they wouldn't be far from a station for the practical reason of lighting them. Just not sure about goods yards...