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 Translation for 'railway signal' from English to French
NOUN   a railway signal | railway signals
trains
balise {f} [de voie ferrée]
(railway) signal
Partial Matches
alpin.trains
chemin {m} de fer de montagne
mountain railway
trains
ligne {f} de chemin de fer
railway line
trains
chemin {m} de fer atmosphérique
atmospheric railway
chemin {m} de ferrailway [Br.]
trainstransp.urban
transport {m} urbain sur rail
light railway
trains
nœud {m} ferroviaire
railway junction
trains
métro {m} aérien
overhead railway [Br.]
trafictrains
barrière {f} de passage à niveau
railway gate [Br.]
géogr.trains
Transsibérien {m}
Trans-Siberian Railway
géogr.hist.trains
chemin {m} de fer transsaharien
Trans-Saharan Railway
tech.trains
technique {f} ferroviaire
railway technology [Br.]
trains
voie {f} ferrée en lacet
switchback railway track
dr.trains
service {m} de police chargé du maintien de l'ordre dans les gares
railway police [Br.]
occup.sociol.trains
grève {f} des chemins de fer
railway strike [Br.]
trains
réseau {m} de ligne
railway network [Br.]
trains
réseau {m} ferroviaire
railway network [Br.]
tourismetrains
chemin {m} de fer à crémaillère
rack railway [Br.]
occup.
cheminot {m}
railway worker [Br.]
trains
ferroviaire {adj}
railway [Br.] [attr.]
trains
gare {f} (de chemin de fer)
railway station [Br.]
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Usage Examples English
  • Originally the DLR used signalling based on a fixed-block technology developed by GEC-General Signal and General Railway Signal.
  • Navigation lights in marine and aviation settings employ red and green lights to signal the relative position of other ships or aircraft. Railway signal lights also rely heavily on red–green–yellow colors.
  • In the United States, the General Railway Signal corporation introduced its Intermittent Inductive Automatic Train Stop system in the 1920s which made use of inductive loops in a "shoe" mounted outside of the running rails.
  • On another he spent several hours assisting the operator of a railway signal box in his duties at Paddington Station.
  • Clearance work began on 2 August 1995 when bulldozers demolished six empty buildings in the path of the bypass – three houses, a railway signal box, a lodge at Mary Hare Grammar School for deaf children and a prefabricated church near Snelsmore Common.

  • Wooden stairs and walkway between the Main Street bridge and the railway signal masts connected the ticket booth to the eastbound platform.
  • Responsibility for the signalling at the station is divided between Preston PSB (main line) and the surviving manual ex-Furness Railway signal box at Carnforth Station Junction, sited just past the junction between the Barrow and Leeds lines.
  • Wagons in the sidings had their brakes undone and freewheeled for miles, railway signal cables were damaged and the cavalry had to be called.
  • Continuous inductive systems include the two-aspect General Railway Signal Company "Automatic Train Control" installed on the Chicago and North Western Railroad among others.
  • The LEU integrates with the conventional (national) signal system either by connecting to the lineside railway signal or to the signalling control tower.

  • Railway signal telegraphy was developed in Britain from the 1840s onward.
  • An accessory, such as a railway signal, can be wired to a section of track that has had one of its outer rails insulated (not grounded), either at the factory or by a hobbyist.
  • He applied for his first two patents based on work done for the General Railway Signal Corp.
  • The first event at the facility was a public trade show held in the exhibition hall and featured such famous Rochester-based companies as Eastman Kodak, Haloid (now Xerox), Bausch & Lomb, General Railway Signal and Rochester Products.
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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