Methil to Cameron railway, Fife, March 2009

[FieldyM]

I don't know what this sign means.

Its a fixed distant signal.

On 28 February 1975 an accident occurred at Moorgate, which at the time was on the London Underground's Northern City Line. A loaded passenger train ran at speed through the buffer stop and into the tunnel end wall. As a result, British Rail decided that in future all colour light signals reading into terminal platform lines would show a yellow rather than a green aspect when the line was clear to the buffer stop

In the early 1980s, a 'low cost signalling committee' was formed, tasked with finding cheaper means of signalling lightly-used lines. One thing that came out of this was the development of a reflectorised notice board style equivalent of the fixed distant signal.

 

[RichardB]

Thanks FieldyM and Fraoch.

I don't think I saw any signals at all on the line actually. There must have been something at one time I suppose.