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| Aspect colours? 20/06/2011 at 10:49 #16765 | |
sunocske
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Yup, right here in Hungary, we have a similar "problem" with the "red" aspect, or colour (on railway-related signs). There is two words in our languages for red. The widely used one is "piros" [pee-rosh], which is the colour of the road traffic signals and signs, colour of your car etc.). The other one is "vörös". It's not so commonly used, only in some cases (hair colour, Red Army,...). I don't know the origin of this difference, but the railway trainers can kill you, if any signal in "piros" colour is talked about. 
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| Aspect colours? 23/06/2011 at 15:35 #16919 | |
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zerofire
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The use of Amber for US signalers is even more complicated. In the US amber was the color of red back in the day so a signal would be (from most restrictive) amber-yellow-green. There were problems with some engineers mistaking amber for yellow so most if not all signals that use amber have been replaced/upgraded with red ones. Similar replacement colors exist with the interchangeability of green, blue and white.
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| Aspect colours? 23/06/2011 at 16:00 #16920 | |
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afro09
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So at a guess the the colour amber is/was widely used in railway signalling, but has a different meanning and use in different countries.
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| Aspect colours? 25/06/2011 at 21:24 #16984 | |
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zerofire
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That's correct Afro. The use of Amber is depreciated in the US for both signals and manuals so if you refer to Amber while talking to a US railways worker they will go into their older books and think your talking about red or will wonder what your talking about.
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