Within days, the state-owned company that produced the signal box apologized for mistakes in its design.
The company said the signal box at Swindon had blanked out and there was a loss of communications.
Flames burnt the side of the wooden signal box and two other cars.
The blaze comes five months after volunteers from the North Norfolk Railway (NNR) returned the signal box to the site.
Phillip Mott QC told the court that he had been distracted after a farmer rang the signal box for a second time asking if it was safe to walk his sheep over another crossing further up the track.
Phillip Mott QC, prosecuting, told the jury Mr Maund, 42, "panicked" when a farmer rang his signal box for a second time asking if it was safe for him to walk his sheep across another crossing further up the track.
As the post-election coalition talks neared their end, Mr Stollmann concluded that the new government would be roaring down the Lafontaine track after all, and he would have precious little chance to change the points from his truncated signal-box.
Consumers will need a digital TV or a converter box to get that signal.
Because tunnels block a radar signal, trains rely largely on hard-wired equipment like the box beside the track, which helps drivers and dispatchers talk to each other and controls a machinelike traffic signal, giving the drivers basic commands to stop and go.
But without a digital TV tuner, or a cable or satellite set-top box that can convert a digital signal, consumers won't get any TV at all by 2009.
And about 40% more will be able to view the digital signal through a digital cable or satellite set-top box on an analog TV they already own.
This, in the end, may be the reason Google is letting go (and could also signal that Cisco will soon sell its own TV set top box unit) as Asian competitors may be turning set top boxes into commodities.
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There, among 12-foot high stacks of old oscilloscopes and signal-conditioning gear, Williams points to a clunky black metal box about the size of an underwear drawer.
That rather obvious problem accounted for 185 of the cases, with damage to the unit by the offender, problems with the black box in the offender's home, and a weak signal rounding out the technical difficulties.
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The box, the size of a washer-dryer, was part of a signal system that lets drivers and dispatchers know where trains are.
Amplification is provided through the subwoofers, while signal processing, the tuner and all inputs and outputs reside in a separate low metallic box.
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