absolute stop meaning

• [Civil engineering]
  A railway signal which indicates that the train must make a full stop and not proceed until there is a change in the signal. Also known as stop and stay.

• absolute stop marker
• Some types of signal display separate permissive and absolute stop aspects.
• ACSES also enforces a positive stop at signals displaying an absolute Stop indication.
• But, so far, only these two teams have succeeded in bringing light to an absolute stop.
• The system will stop the train in a Positive Stop Zone, extending up to 1000 feet from the absolute stop signal.
• Suddenly, amazingly, the light slows down to an absolute stop _ and, in the darkened lab, dims to total darkness.
• On a few light rail lines IIATS has been employed in a manner similar to mechanical train stops, stopping the train if it passes an absolute stop signal.
• In 1954, the PRR experimented installing red lenses in the horizontal position of the upper head to help increase the at distance visibility of absolute Stop signals at Overbrook interlocking.
• Additional BCMs ( data radios ) located at interlockings transmit information relating to absolute Stop signal indications and any speed restrictions pertaining to the train's route through said interlocking.
• Even before the war, there had been talks about merging the two Rhodesias, but the process had been halted by the British authorities, and brought to an absolute stop by the war.

• "absolute stop" meaning in Chinese: 绝对停车信号