signal box
a railway signal tower.
Origin of signal box
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How to use signal box in a sentence
"Enough of them," replied the commander, as he drew forth from a signal-box the flags required.
Fighting for the Right | Oliver OpticThe ruined building is the signal box itself, protected by the line of sandbags in front of telegraph poles and shelled trees.
A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire | Harold HarveyThe man who had rung the signal-box yelled something at him, but he already knew.
The Monster and Other Stories | Stephen CraneThe engraving accompanying this chapter shows the appearance and mechanism of the signal box.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life | James D. McCabeThere was a signal box at each end of the tunnel, and a fair traffic, and fast trains passed.
Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge | John Newman
British Dictionary definitions for signal box
a building containing manually operated signal levers for all the railway lines in its section
a control point for a large area of a railway system, operated electrically and semiautomatically
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