GCR Lever Colors

[1165Valour]

Does anyone know what the common lever colors were in Great Central signal boxes?

[Michael Hodgson]

Current colours

https://lever-frame.co.uk/index.php/lever-colours

 

I think the GC were pretty much standard, but see the thread below,  but some companies did vary as to the colour of unusual items like gongs.  Standard hasn't changed much over the years but distant levers would have been green until the 1920s when both  distant arms and levers became yellow.

 

 

Here's Loughborough, on the preserved GCR  (not the original GC arrangement there of course).  The Red over Yellow, lever 49 in the foreground means the lever works a stop signal and also operates  a distant, but it would not have been like that in GC days.  The volunteer signalmen there do tend to dress in appropriate uniform. 

 

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[Wickham Green too]

2 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

.... The volunteer signalmen there do tend to dress in appropriate uniform. ........

Far more important, though  -  he's got his duster !