Guest 838rapid Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 838rapid Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 Sorry struggled to upload picture Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 What happened there then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted December 1, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 1, 2012 The signal box closed a few weeks ago; a pity nonetheless! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Sad to see this happen!! An old signal box near me closed,and then the local "fools" burnt it flat to the ground.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptic Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Ggrrraah.....B*##*cks,.... .Another reminder of railway history is, now, ashes. The list appears to be growing longer, both with rolling stock and buildings. Never too old,...to appreciate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_m Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Was it listed? Would it have been demolished anyway as no longer required? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Sad to say it doesn't look out of place on a neglected railway. Didn't this box have a G&SWR frame? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_m Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 I also posted my question on the signalbox forum and somebody has responded to say that the box was due for demolition this weekend anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 838rapid Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 It may have been destined for demolition,but vandals torched it.. Thats vandalism. If it was demolished in a controlled manner,the running of trains would not have been affected for hours,it would have been demolished under controlled conditions. To say it was "due for Demolition this weekend" doesn't justify burning it down and making it a unsafe structure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted December 2, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2012 Well, THAT didn't take the local baskets long did it? Was it truly destined for demolition that quick? I suppose the “authorities” have this kind of experience elsewhere! The truly amazing thing is that Stalybridge Fire Station is only yards away! (I guess 200 yards!) in a direct line of sight! In the 80s, during a “Saver7 Bash”, I watched a 31 on tanks come into the loop on fire! It was ages, I mean an eternity – ok more than 5 minutes! - before the Fire brigade to responded! I'm gutted, Kev. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted December 2, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2012 Sad to say it doesn't look out of place on a neglected railway. Didn't this box have a G&SWR frame? Allegedly it was built by the LMS at Irvine in 1942 from an old Stevens G&SWR frame. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted December 2, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 2, 2012 Sorry to see yet another piece of history go (whether or not byway of vandalism) but it begs a question - just how much disruption can we expect when NR has the entire country under eight signalling centres and one of those suffers some sort of major incident? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted December 2, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2012 As a local, and someone who is really interested, what does "G&SWR" stand for? Excuse my ignorance. Regards, Kev. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted December 2, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2012 Glasgow and South Western Railway Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted December 2, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2012 Glasgow and South Western Railway Sorry, 'Beast' me to it!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted December 2, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2012 I had "Glasgow" in my head but I just couldn't apply it to "Stalybridge"! Thanks, Kev - still gutted and now really missing the open day they held a while ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 2, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2012 Sorry to see yet another piece of history go (whether or not byway of vandalism) but it begs a question - just how much disruption can we expect when NR has the entire country under eight signalling centres and one of those suffers some sort of major incident? Quite considerable judging by the examples to date at Cardiff and York - and that, in both cases, was with only a bit of what they currently control or will control. Mind you people were saying/asking just the same when the wide control area powerboxes were coming in during the 1960s/'70s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted December 3, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 3, 2012 Glasgow and South Western Railway Sorry, 'Beast' me to it!!!! Instructions to the shunter : "Go & See What's Ready" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_m Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 To say it was "due for Demolition this weekend" doesn't justify burning it down and making it a unsafe structure. I never said it did, and I can imagine it must have caused a lot of disruption. But there's a big difference between a box being burned down that was otherwise going to be preserved, and one that would have been demolished within a couple of days in any case. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 3, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2012 I'm gutted, So's the box. [sorry!] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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