197304 – Beikoff – Supervisory and Control Systems for Railway Signalling

Each year the Confederation of British Industries offer Overseas Scholarships for practical engineering training in the United Kingdom. Each candidate nominates his own field of study and I was fortunate enough to obtain a scholarship to study Remote Control Systems as applied to Railway Signalling.

In this paper I shall briefly describe, the various systems encountered and leave some time for questions. The program of the scholarship basically consisted of 6 months training with G.E.C. General Signal Co., 3 months with Westinghouse, Brake and Signal Co., and finally 3 months with British Railways. Three weeks were spent with each of Railweight and W. & T. Avery on the study of electronic weighbridges so if time permits some questions can be directed on this subject.