signal box


nounBritish.
  1. a railway signal tower.

Origin of signal box

1
First recorded in 1820–30

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British Dictionary definitions for signal box

signal box

noun
  1. a building containing manually operated signal levers for all the railway lines in its section

  2. a control point for a large area of a railway system, operated electrically and semiautomatically

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