Site Updates
20 September 2023
Some information on Chinese signal boards
corrected.
100 km/h speed aspect for Bulgarian signals
and links to Bulgarian signalling
site added (thanks to Pawel Nikolov for the information)
12 April 2021
Added a new section on the history of railways
and signalling in Germany
27 March 2021
Added pages on my experiences of culture,
living,
working, and travelling in China
6 March 2021
It's been almost ten years since the last update, but
I finally managed to include the latest changes of the signal book as well as
some new pictures.
And there is a new section: A
few pages about my Märklin model railway - it's only a small layout, but it
focuses on signals.
10 August 2011
The page new rulebook updates was updated.
19 June 2011
Lf 6 and
Lf 7 are not valid for tilting
trains which are equipped with automatic speed supervision.
The ETCS Stop Marker was introduced into to Signal Book as signal Ne 14
17 January 2011
Added link to Peter Wiegel's Site, also containing fonts
used at Prussian and German railways
Corrected Link to Jarek's site about Polish
railway signals
New appearance of signal for spring-loaded points.
1 February 2009
Relaunched web site with new design and UTF-8 (Unicode) encoding, corrected
several minor errors.
12 May 2008
Reflected recent
changes in signalbook. Some
idiosyncrasies have gone away while there is a new one calling the day a
night...
16 March 2008
New pictures of various OSShD
and Dutch signals.
Added some new pictures of Chinese
signals.
13 December 2007
Some corrections on the pages about French signals.
20 May 2007
Latest changes reflected in the pages on Berlin Subway
signals.
2 April 2007
At the Indusi
pages, added an explanation
for the speed reduction for halting trains.
10 March 2007
New page about Munich
subway signals added
11 February 2007
picture in page "bi-directional
operations"
corrected: the distant signal on the left track is not announced by
count-down markers.
Hamburg U-Bahn signals:
aspect and meaning of signal
So 5 changed (thanks to René Neumann for this
information)
17 December 2006
added some pages about French
railway signals
22 September 2006
reworked the pages about Chinese
railway signals, added a
page about Chinese signal boards
13 August 2006
Added two pages about the OSShD
and the OSShD signals
30 July 2006
With the new edition of the Signal Book, there are numerous
changes, signals renamed
etc.
25 June 2006
Six and a half years after uploading the page about a railway
accident, the picture of the second loco which was involved
has been uploaded.
12 February 2006
Description of British Semaphores at Ely Dock junction
corrected.
New pictures for Berlin
S-Bahn signals added.
19 October 2005
New page: Signal and other pictures from China
Some signalling
links added
New picture of a train
protection signal
New pages: Travelling
Eating page updated
pictures of signals for
spring-loaded points added
22 February 2005
Oops.. one and a half years without updates...
First page about my first hobby added: eating
New pic on the Hamburg Subway Signals picture
page
17 August 2003
Sounds added on the pages for protection,
miscellaneous, and shunting
signals.
Links to the web site of the OSShD
added.
3 May 2003
Track map symbols
updated.
20 April 2003
Meine erste Seite über chinesische
Eisenbahnsignale
My first page about Chinese
railway signals
26 February 2003
Aspect for DR
multiple block signals corrected.
8 February 2003
Site map
completed,
Pictures section
reorganized and new pictures added,
Links validated
3 January 2003
Site navigation has been reorganized, and finally I've managed
to provide a site map!
14 December 2002
Well, the site wasn't really updated, but it moved to its
current location...
2 December 2002
New page with track
map symbols added.
10 July 2002
New page with pictures of Sk
signals added, Sk page
corrected.
New Ks pictures added.
24 June 2002
Some pictures from a trip to Ottawa
added.
12 May 2002
Graphics on the Sk
page and distant signal post plate
description on Hp semaphore
page corrected.
21 February 2002
New page added: Do
American signals make sense?
20 January 2002
A link
to a web
site about Chinese Railways
added. (link removed 2021 as the site appears offline)
2 January 2002
Pictures from Canada
added
7 November 2001
Rulebook changes:
Gleiswechselanzeiger (DB: Zs 6,
DR: Zs 7) board
added.
On non-DBAG railways new halt-on-demand signal Ne 5
added.
4 October 2001
Now finally I started working on my China section!
30 September 2001
corrected & updated some links
2 August 2001
corrected description of the Bavarian Hp Ru
aspect
new information on the historical use of colours at
signals
new placement of signals for wrong
line operation
30 July 2001
added page about DR
Ma signals on the Berliner
Außenring
added page about Ho signals
updated pages on historical
signals
27 June 2001
added pages about historical
and test signalling systems
added some pictures of British
semaphore signals and some
other pictures
9 February 2001
some pictures from Malaysian
railways added
pictures from signal boxes added
2 January 2001
new link category: humanitarian
links
added.
New page: Berlin Subway
signals.
Lots of new pictures of: Cab
displays, Ks signals,
Hl signals, misc. pictures.
28 November 2000
New: pictures of cab
displays and new pictures of Hp,
Hl, and EZMG
signals!
30 September 2000
Pictures from the USA added. Look at U.S. signals and
at the Other Stuff
pages.
22 September 2000
Indusi and Speed
Limits added.
21 July 2000
Indusi updated- parts 2
& 3
added
8 July 2000
Information about Indusi
added.
Hp distant
signal repeater added.
23 June 2000
Now added Spanish
signals.
25 April 2000
The first pictures of
foreign signals!
1 April 2000
Rule Book updates:
Yellow triangle post plate on Hl
combined signals
New catenary
boards
New level-crossing boards: Bü 2
announcers
24 March 2000
NEU! Hamburger
U-Bahn-Signale
NEW! Hamburg Subway Signals
14 February 2000
Signalling index page
changed, overview of all Hl
colour light signal aspects provided.
30 January 2000
Simplified
tail signal, gang
warning signals and brake test hand
signals added.
21 January 2000
DR's Zs 106
(Short entry signal board)
added
Bi-directional traffic:
graphic examples added.
16 January 2000
Bi-directional
traffic explanation continued.
12 January 2000
Distinction between train
movements and shunting
movements clarified.
Terminology
regarding points
explained.
Post plates for subway
signals corrected.
Bi-directional traffic
explained.
1 January 2000
Happy new year!
Some notes on British vs. American Terminology, especially on points.
9 December 1999
My new ISP's server is picky about case. All file names
changed to lower case. Also
most filenames changed.
(If you want to link this site, please use only the index.htm
pages)
Numbering updated
Rear night
aspects of semaphore distant signals
image added
26 December 1999
Rear
night aspects of semaphore distant
signals corrected
Distinction between DR's waiting signal ("W"-Board) Ra11a and Ra11b.
Numbering of Signals and
Tracks
16 December 1999
This site moved to a new location.
8 November 1999
East German level
crossing signals introduced into
West Germany.
A new picture of a semaphore
signal.
2 November 1999
New investigation results in the Railway Accident
Case!
30 October 1999
Some corrections on Subway
Signals
Explanation page
for speed signals enhanced.
Explanation for arrows on catenary
signals
enhanced.
18 October 1999
The Signal Book was updated these changes were reflected in my
site. In particular
these things have changed:
1 April - 25 August 1999
Aspects of EZMG
Signals corrected.
Some new links
e.g. to Spanish Signalling
Information on LZB
updated information on FZB
and CIR-ELKE
added.
LZB updated.
The first information on LZB
uploaded.
Pictures of a Railway
Accident Scene added ;-)
A new design for my home page.
EZMG signals added.
Semaphore night
aspects from rear added and
semaphore appearance corrected.
Note on Sv signal
Hp 0+Sv 0 aspect corrected.
New pictures of DR's Hl signals
level
crossing signals and other
stuff added.
A few enhanced pictures added 
reference
icons to pictures added
Finally: The first signal pictures
(few and bad but I'll
promise to provide better pics some time ;-)
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