Site Updates
12 May 2008
Reflected recent changes in signalbook. Some
oddities 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 sping-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 provite 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 aboute Chinese Railways
added.
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 unse 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 informations 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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