"Belisha beacon" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1935 January 10, “Cyclists air their grievances on road safety”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "A police constable concealed in a doorway in City Road, Finsbury, saw a youth of seventeen, who had two others with him, climb a Belisha beacon and break the globe with his fist. It was the hundredth beacon globe to be broken in Finsbury since November.",
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          "word": "黃波燈"
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