Lever frame
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Mechanical railway signalling installations rely on lever frames for their operation to interlock the signals, track locks and points to allow the safe operation of trains in the area the signals cont
A mechanical lever frame inside the signal box at Knockcroghery in Ireland
Waterloo station A signalbox, LSWR (Howden, Boys' Book of Locomotives, 1907)
Lever frame of the signal box Hausen im Tal, Germany: the signals are operated by the red levers, black levers with Arabic numerals are for points and blue levers with Roman numerals are for track locks. The box on the right of the lever frame is used for manual block signalling; the smaller green levers are used for operating the route locks. The interlocking apparatus is in the box behind the levers.
A three-lever ground frame at Kyle of Lochalsh, released by Annett's key
Southern Cross station is a major railway station in Docklands, Melbourne. It is on Spencer Street, between Collins and La Trobe streets, at the western edge of the Melbourne central business district
Lever frame
…in the signal box, the levers are operated either by the signalman or the pointsman. The world's largest lever frame is believed to have been in the Spencer Street No.1 signal box in Melbourne, Australia, which had 191 levers, but was decommissioned in 2008. The largest, currently operational, lever frame is located at Severn Bridge Junction in Shrewsbury…
Main entrance to the station on the corner of Collins and Spencer Streets, August 2024
Lithograph of the busy station complex, looking west from the Hoddle Grid, 1889
Works on the station, November 2004
Works on the roof, January 2005