Rather than construct something for the railroad itself, he decided that an early 1900’s-style semaphore railroad signal would make a great novelty item for the room.

Well, in the 1840s the British railroads adopted a flag, lamp and semaphore signal system where red meant danger, white meant safety and green indicated proceed with caution. They took their ...

Shrewsbury's massive signal box is flagged up as a rare surviving gem of the British railway system in a new book which salutes the network's rapidly disappearing semaphore signalling system.