signal box

1. 1.

   a building from which signals are sent to control the movements of railway trains

   Synonymssignal tower

   Broaderbuilding

   United Kingdom

Questions about signal box

What does signal box mean?

signal box means "a building from which signals are sent to control the movements of railway trains".

What is another word for signal box?

Close synonyms include signal tower. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is signal box a common word?

signal box is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.