Mechanical distant signal

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A standard mechanical distand signal utilized by Polish and German railways. Several construction variants possible:

two or three-aspect signal (with two different contruction variants of the mirror chamber),
signal on small or high post
signal with mechanical or electric drive
additional equipment: signal couplings, levers for coupling with main signal
equipment for signals used by DR and PKP (before 1959) , with two signal shutters.

Additionally, the model contains distant signal indicator W1/W1d (K3o)/W1t (K3z) in small and normal version.

Based on:

Album rysunków konstrukcyjnych urządzeń zabezpieczenia ruchu pociągów, tom 1A, Wydawnictwo Komunikacyjne, Warszawa 1958. Copy of the album obtained from plany.zonk.pl (last access: 17^th December 2014);
Mikulski, A.: Mechaniczne urządzenia zabezpieczenia ruchu kolejowego, WKŁ, Warszawa 1965;
Erläuterungen zu den Einheitszeichnungen für Stellwerksteile (STELL ERL), Deutsche Reichsbahn, F. Ulmann GmbH., Zwickau 1941;
Carstens, S.: Signale, tom 3, MIBA-Verlag, Nuremberg 2009;
Bronowski, J., Górecki, H., Mikulski, A.: Elektryczne urządzenia zabezpieczenia ruchu pociągów, Wydawnictwo Komunikacyjne, Warszawa 1957;
Photos and measurements of signals from station Wierzchucin.