signal box in English

noun
1
a building beside a railroad track from which signals, switches, and other equipment are controlled.
During the war she worked at a munitions factory in Chorley and then in the signal box at Newhey railway station.
noun
    signal tower

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1. In addition to changes to the railway tracks, a modern centralised signal box was built.

2. 6 With the modernisation of the railway system, Brooke End signal box was abandoned, its structure left to stand forlorn.

3. On 22 February 1945, an air raid on Scherfede station completely destroyed a signal box and several buildings in the area were damaged by incendiary projectiles.

4. One source of multiple matches for Alinement near the beginning of its rise in the late 1890s and early 1900s was the Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office.Here's a patent description for an electric fire-alarm circuit and signal-box (September 29, 1896):