Books on signalling

[Jol Wilkinson]

The Samaritans book site (on Amazon) have some interesting signalling books for sale.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/shops/storef ... 254K5W3K18

[grovenor-2685]

NB. Most of those are the IRSE "Green Booklets" which are available more economically direct from the IRSE http://www.irse.org/public/itemsforsale.aspx
Or can be downloaded here free. http://bookos.org/g/Institution%20of%20Railway%20Signal%20Engineers
I have some notes on my website relating to the contents, http://www.norgrove.me.uk/signalli-IRSE.htm
The others which have "Educational lectures" in the title I have not previously come across, I suspect they may be precursors of the green booklets.
(Indeed the preamble to the green booklets refers to them being based on the lectures).
Regards
Keith

[John Palmer]

IRSE Green Booklets in .pdf format are also available from the IRSE Australasia's website: http://www.irse.org.au/images/stories/Knowledge/Green_Book/. Possibly these include different editions to those available via Keith's link.

The IRSE Australasia site also gives you online access to the IRSE's proceedings from 1913 to 2001 at http://irse.org.au/index.php/en/knowledge/irse-proceedings. Browsing this resource, I chanced upon an article in Proceedings 1938 Part 1 by Mr Frank Eginton entitled "High Speed Trains and their Effect on Signalling", which shed additional light upon the LNER's arrangements for double block working of the Silver Jubilee, the subject of a previous thread. Mr Eginton was a member of the S&T Engineers Dept for the Southern Area of the LNER, and consequently well placed to speak authoritatively upon this subject.

[Jol Wilkinson]

Thanks for the information Keith.

I wasn't aware of these booklets until my wife - a volunteers in the local Sams Bookshop - brought them to my attention. Their prices are based on what other Amazon sellers have priced them at, as there is no one in the local Samaritans branch that would actually know anything about signalling.

Jol