Hi.

I'm posting the Leeds Jcn drawing, the last of the Shipley triangle boxes. A quick personal note. I was made a Train Recorder in 1945 having reached the age of 16 and able to work nights. There was a lad on each shift from Monday 0600 to 0200 Sunday morning. I am also attaching a very simple drawing of the box's down distant signals relevant to the two boxes in rear. I tried yesterday when I started this post to explain the distant signal operation in words but it became almost impossible. I hope the drawing if looked at in connection with main drawing will help. The sections between the three triangle box's and Guiseley Jcn were short and distant signals at Leeds Jcn could not be pulled off until the box in advance cleared it's distant signal. A mechanical indicator indicated when the distant signal in advance was cleared. This system applied to all four box's but only Leeds Jcn had it all directions. As the two box's covered in the simple drawing were not in my rest day roster they never got in my exercise book..Leeds Jcn had a 40 lever frame including 2 spares. There were no crossovers so no ground signals. If you can make out number 27 signal on the main post of the splitting signals from the Skipon direction, this was the down starter to Skipton. The short sections required close co-operation between all the signalmen. For instance, Guiseley Jcn would sometimes have to keep a long goods train at his down slow home signal so as not to block the Jcn to Ilkley. This could happen if Bingley Jcn was running a train in or out on the Bradford Skipton leg. The Fast and Slow lines started here all the way to Leeds The simplistic drawing also shows how trains to or from Bradford accessed the Slow line or the Ilkley Line..So what about the junction onto the Batley line? This was a GN branch from Bradford Exchange. Behind Leeds Jcn was the remains of Windhill Station Passenger traffic was long gone but there was still considerable goods traffic. The were daily trip workings between Bradford Valley goods (see first posting) and the GN yard. There was also a through working from the GN yard to Skipton. This ran onto the down goods line and the loco ran round it's train between Shipley Goods and Frizinghall It had a brake van at both ends. Strangely I cannot remember a return working. It may have worked back to Valley Yard and and been a trip working to the GN yard. The latter had it's own signal box almost opposite Guiseley Jcn. and had a Signalwoman on one shift. The line down to the yard was something like 1 in 40 and brakes had to be pinned down ay the start of the decent On approaching the yard the driver had to whistle he had the train under control otherwise the line was left set for a long sand drag.

That's about it. Cheers, Derek.