controlling railway engines is not quite correct. Telegraph was used by railway signallers to regulate the safe movement of trains. This was called single or double line Block safeworking.
Copy edited accordingly to say, He installed the railway telegraph lines between Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland, for recording messages, to regulate the safe movement of trains, marking time, giving signals, and printing information at different locations. --
Doug Coldwell (
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14:43, 7 September 2021 (UTC)reply
The citation from reference 8 does not make sense. Please explain how telegraph controls railway engines with electricity by turning on and off steam. There is something not quite right with this citation.
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Whiteguru: I don't have that journal in front of me now,
however here is a Lecture on Alexander Bain that says the same thing on page 2, In December 1841, Bain in conjunction with Lieutenant Thomas Wright RN, patented a method for using electricity to control railway engines by turning off steam, marking time, giving signals, and printing information at different locations. --
Doug Coldwell (
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10:59, 7 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Doug Coldwell: I appreciate that you have cited the source. If we leave things as they are, we will be open to ridicule and challenge. My sense is that the railway telegraph, as mentioned above, was used to control the movement of trains as per safeworking and adherence to movement of trains in block sections (usually from signal box to signal box). So marking time, giving signals and printing information is fine. Operation of steam locomotives on the railway - in Bain's time and today - has always been done by humans: drivers and firemen. So my common sense says either drop this phrase or replace it with "control of railway trains", albeit agin the text of Steuart. I've driven trains: I'm telling you, no telegraph operates trains. --
Whiteguru (
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11:23, 7 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Whiteguru: I've reworded it ->In December 1841, Bain in conjunction with Lieutenant Thomas Wright RN, patented a method for helping to control railway trains with the use of electricity. Will that work?--
Doug Coldwell (
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12:00, 7 September 2021 (UTC)reply
controlling railway engines is not quite correct. Telegraph was used by railway signallers to regulate the safe movement of trains. This was called single or double line Block safeworking.
Copy edited accordingly to say, He installed the railway telegraph lines between Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland, for recording messages, to regulate the safe movement of trains, marking time, giving signals, and printing information at different locations. --
Doug Coldwell (
talk)
14:43, 7 September 2021 (UTC)reply
The citation from reference 8 does not make sense. Please explain how telegraph controls railway engines with electricity by turning on and off steam. There is something not quite right with this citation.
@
Whiteguru: I don't have that journal in front of me now,
however here is a Lecture on Alexander Bain that says the same thing on page 2, In December 1841, Bain in conjunction with Lieutenant Thomas Wright RN, patented a method for using electricity to control railway engines by turning off steam, marking time, giving signals, and printing information at different locations. --
Doug Coldwell (
talk)
10:59, 7 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Doug Coldwell: I appreciate that you have cited the source. If we leave things as they are, we will be open to ridicule and challenge. My sense is that the railway telegraph, as mentioned above, was used to control the movement of trains as per safeworking and adherence to movement of trains in block sections (usually from signal box to signal box). So marking time, giving signals and printing information is fine. Operation of steam locomotives on the railway - in Bain's time and today - has always been done by humans: drivers and firemen. So my common sense says either drop this phrase or replace it with "control of railway trains", albeit agin the text of Steuart. I've driven trains: I'm telling you, no telegraph operates trains. --
Whiteguru (
talk)
11:23, 7 September 2021 (UTC)reply
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Whiteguru: I've reworded it ->In December 1841, Bain in conjunction with Lieutenant Thomas Wright RN, patented a method for helping to control railway trains with the use of electricity. Will that work?--
Doug Coldwell (
talk)
12:00, 7 September 2021 (UTC)reply