resignal

R1E1S1I1G2N1A1L1

verb

To signal again

Scrabble 9

Meanings

verbresignal (third-person singular simple present resignals, present participle (US) resignaling or (UK) resignalling, simple past and past participle (US) resignaled or (UK) resignalled)

present singular third person resignals · US participle present resignaling · UK participle present resignalling · US participle past resignaled · US past resignaled · UK participle past resignalled · UK past resignalled

  1. To signal again
  2. To equip (a railway) with new signalling equipment.

    The Stage I electrified area has been resignalled throughout with colour-lights, which in due course will be associated with B.R. standard A.W.S., and 27 signalboxes now do the work of the steam age's 56.

    1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713
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    This arrangement remains firmly in place 21 years later, although it will almost certainly succumb to being fully resignalled within the next 15-20 years as part of the policy adopted by Network Rail in 2011 to centralise signalling and migrate control of the entire network to 12 Rail Operating Centres (ROCs).

    2018 July 18, Paul Stephen, “Shrewsbury's record-breakers”, in RAIL, number 857

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APA

resignal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resignal

MLA

“resignal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resignal. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “resignal,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resignal.

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