Re: [General] Railway language - trivia warning!

[Deeg <galtfd@att.net>]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 16:27:34 +1000, "Ronald BESDANSKY"
<ronbest@bigpond.com> wrote:

>I am curious as to whether some British railway terms are being / have been
>used here:
>
>On / off (of signals)
>Bobby (signaller)
>Link (driver's table)
>Top link ("best" driver's table)
>One on (said by flagperson when warning of approaching train)
>

The only one of these that I find familiar - remembered most vividly
from reading L T C Rolt's account of the Hawes Junction disaster - is
on/off, meaning signals set at danger/clear. But I wonder if it is
still in use even in the UK. Perhaps it has faded away in the era of
colour lights?

Don Galt