lever frame

noun

A frame in a signal box in which levers that operate signals and points are mounted.

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Meanings

nounlever frame (plural lever frames)

plural lever frames

  1. rail transportA frame in a signal box in which levers that operate signals and points are mounted.

    All layout remodelling and resignalling at Stafford has already been finished; the colour-light signals, with their route-indicators, and the power-operated points are operated from the lever frames of existing signalboxes.

    1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The L.M.R. electrification”, in Modern Railways, page 220
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Chicago

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