Signals, Route Relay Interlocking, Cabins and Equipment

A Neale's 'ball', used in the famous Neale's Ball Token Instruments. Photo by Vicky, 2005. (Gallery Administrator)

Evening scene: YL ready to depart; YP steaming in from depot for Exp;. Jaipur in MG days, 1992-01-xx. Wp7713.

May the pole rest in peace. A signal in disuse. All probability that it will be pulled down soon and sold for scrap. Alwal, 02/05/06. Aniketh.

Outer signal just before Kacheguda station, Note a blue disk lamp, not sure what it is used for. Kacheguda, 2005 06 12. Pavan Kumar.

Surendranagar East Cabin. Track turns right to Surendranagar Jn. & furthur to Rajkot. Bhavnagar Exp turns left & approach Surendranagar Gate station & Furthur to Bhavnagar via Botad & Dhola Jn. Surendranagar Outer, 15/06/05. Hrishikesh Mog

Porbander East Cabin. The only cabin on the station. PORBANDER STATION, 18/06/05. Hrishikesh Moghe.

View further south from the old station board. These villagers are walking on the old MG alignment. The BG track can be seen on the right where it emerges from the cutting in the side of the mountain. Also visible is the Down Advanced Starter Semaphore an

A cluster of Semaphore signals overlook the entrance to the station. Notice the long platform with side rails to facilitate human-reach to the semaphore arms. Shahabad, February 8, 2005. Nikhil Ganu.

"entering token territory" a message for the drivers entering the nanded section,while on the rhs "entering lower quadrant/tokenless block territory" for drivers entering the daund section. Ankai, 2005-08-12. Sachin Buddhisagar.

Information board displaying starting of MACL terrirory. This probably is the last MAUQ signal towards KCG side. Mahabubnagar, 2005 08 15. Pavan Kumar.

Gaint looking signalling structure on approach to Mahabubnagar Station. Transmitter tower on hillock is dwarfed by magnificent looking signals. Mahabubnagar, 2005 08 15. Pavan Kumar.

Waiting to rip!! In MG of course!!. Rohit Mohan.

This is a repeater signal. Repeaters always have a black 'R' on a white circular board fixed below it. Note that the starter signal for the platform is not visible from here. This is why the repeater is needed. It will always stay at yellow as long as the

An antique signal post at a railway crossing near Ettimadai railway station, Tamilnadu. A snail cam also be spotted inside the railing holding the lamp. 2005-09-06, Sreekumar Pisharath.

A collection of semaphore gantries controlling the traffic movement on the BG/MG Delhi Sarai Rohilla - Rewari section. Palam Station, West Exit, Delhi, 2005-09-10. Shashanka Nanda.

A humble railway lamp glows dimly in the dark. 2005-10-06. Bizzy Mishra.

And a heritage cabin too.

This is the new Junction cabin Building between TKD FBD

Old Junction Cabin Building still stand aside quitely

MG Control Room at Jaipur. (Date not provided.) By Bansri.

Inside Moulali C Cabin, not a single soul was present around this place. This cabin is used to divert trains into sidings adjance to SC-KZJ mainline.

An LED signal at Bangalore Cantt. Most signals at Bangalore Cantt. are now of the LED type. Gaurav Varshney, 2005-12-10.

Older color signal lights replaced with newer style. One can still see older signal post which had its face turned parallel to rails.

The oldtype signal cabin at Sikkil., by Aravind, June 10, 2006.

The Signal control platform at Howbagh station, Jabalpur, MP, 2006-08-14.

Station cabin. This reasonably important place, steeped in history, strangely had low level platforms. McCluskieganj, Jharkhand, 2006-08-15

Nowhere to Go! Before Tumkur Aug 2006 - Vivek (Old Man)