Slovenian Railroad Museum, Part II, Signals and Controls

Slovenian Railroad museum, part II.

In part II of my visit to slovenian railroad museum we will see signalboxes, switchboxes and central traffic control, along other things which are essential in railroad transportation.

Signalboxes were used for giving signals to the trains, start, stop, reverse, etc.

Switchboxes were used as a predesessors of a centralized traffic control (CTC)., the switchman on the line, for certain types of trains, he switches trains via switch levers, which are then throwing switches on certain direction.

Centarlized Traffic Control, is now a standard in railroad industry, in which a person, with a push of a button, throws switches in certain directions where the trains suppose to go.

U drugom dijelu mog posjeta slovenskom željezničkom muzeju vidjet ćemo sustave kontrole željezničkog prometa i ostale za to bitne stavke.

Signali/ signalne kutije su se koristile za davanje signala, kreni, stani, vozi unatrag etc.

Switchbox/ skretnički blokovi, koji su prethodnici cetralizirane prometne kontrole, skretničar na trasi, okreće skretnice preko poluga, koje prebacuju skretnice u tražene pravce/ smjerove.

Centralizirana prometna kontrola/ CTC, kod nas poznata i kao centrala na kolodvoru. To je današnji standard na željeznici, u kojoj jedna osoba, pritiskom na dugme okreće skretnice tražene pravce za prolazak vlakova.