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railroad signal, device designed to inform train-operating crews of conditions of the track ahead and to relay instructions as to speed and other matters. The earliest signals were flags and lamps indicating that the track was clear. The semaphore signal, with its three indications of “stop,” “proceed with caution,” and “all clear,” was introduced in the 1840s. Interlocking signals, to prevent giving an all clear for one route when clearance has already been given for a conflicting route, were introduced in France and Britain in the 1850s. They were improved into the block system, by which the distance interval between ...(100 of 231 words)

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