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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Anna Falkenmire

Journey back 125 years to discover how signal boxes kept trains on track

Inside the signal box at Hamilton - Newcastle Herald

FOR more than a century, coloured levers were manually pulled to direct trains at Hamilton Junction, a switch was flicked to lower the boom gates, and globes lit up on a map to show where carriages were.

It is an intricate system that is still working perfectly more than 125 years later - it is just connected to a computer and a miniature railway model.

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