Sentence examples for signal box from inspiring English sources
noun
A building, typically adjacent to or spanning a railway line, from where signals, points and (sometimes) level crossings are controlled.
Signal minded (man buys old railway signal box).
This evidently was intended for the railway signal box which they missed..
Moore then reported his concerns to a manager in the King's Cross signal box.
Antiques like the Edgware Road signal box are being replaced by computerised control rooms.
When he joined the NUR as a signal box lad in 1955, the union had more than 500,000 members.
My bedroom here is a converted signal box for the never-completed extension to the Great Eastern Railway.
Two days later Mr. Scarpelli told Mr. Ryan of his plan to inspect the signal box the next day.
Knapp once described to me his early work in that signal box, tough even for a well-built lad.
When Mr. Scarpelli and his expert inspected the signal box that morning with Mr. Ryan's help, they found nothing unusual.
Within days, the state-owned company that produced the signal box apologized for mistakes in its design.
In September, its London "cell" gave a disused signal box near Brick Lane, east London, a politically motivated makeover.
