GNR Signal Lamps

[Stephen Freeman]

I know that the GNR removed the signal lamps during the day but did this practice extend to Ground Signals too?  I understand that this stopped around the time of the Great War, not just due to the lack of manpower but the adoption of long burning lamps at about the same time.

[Stephen Freeman]

I appear to have answered my own question by reading the book carefully. Yes until the long burning lamps came in they were removed during daylight hours.

[Michael Hodgson]

Well if they weren't using long-burning lamps, they might as well taken them down at dawn ready for refilling.

They've got all day to do that before they'll be wanted again.

 

It was usually expected that one would economise by extinguishing any lamps when they weren't needed; the 8-day jobs would have come in when somebody worked out that it was costing more in labour to keep mucking about with them than to leave them on all the time.

 

There were written instructions about when to light and extinguish lamps around the station generally, and the companies tended to be rather frugal.