home signal

English

British home and distant lower quadrant semaphore signals, most of which are now superseded by colour light signals. The home signal has a red arm, when in the horizontal position it is at danger, meaning a train must stop.

Noun

home signal (plural home signals)

1. (rail transport) A railway signal controlling entry to the next section of line. Originally it meant a signal governing entry into a station.

Related terms

• distant signal

References

• “home signal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• negaholism