LMS Route: Stratford Midland Junction - The Shakespeare Route

Miscellaneous: smj_misc296

Photograph showing the Railophone installed in the guards compartment in a railway carriage. In April 1911 a public demonstration of this system for a 'phone link between train and signal box had been given on the SMJ at Stratford-upon-Avon when Miss Made Corelli, authoress, performed the inaugural ceremony. Since then, making use of a coach loaned by the Great Central Railway, the inventor had perfected his system so that it could be used for controlling trains as well as for communication.

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