Signal Box Photos

[Rugd1022]

Toddington on the Gloc & Warks line....

 

 

 

 

[Miserable]

My old box. Not entirely sure that's me in the photo, despite the bod that sent it thinking so.

[Tim V]

Can't see you in these pictures either! Our special was supposed to be going up to Cranmore, but as usual was running late. We stopped here.

[birdseyecircus]

Bridlington South

Hull Paragon

Beverley.

 

Paul

[Gilbert]

4 hours ago, phil_sutters said:

A mixture of shots including signal boxes or bits of signal boxes from Dad's albums, mainly on the S&D but one, rather out of area, of Waterworks box at York.

What a fantastic set of S&DJR photos - thanks

Chris

[beast66606]

3 hours ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

Great Eastern land today:

 

 

... and another I need help identifying:

 

 

 

 

Black Bank

 

Edited December 25, 2020 by beast66606
changed my mind

[Davexoc]

On 14/12/2020 at 10:13, Poor Old Bruce said:

Any chance of posting the actual pictures rather than tedious links please.

 

Here are mine showing said boxes;

 

SNG departing on a charter past the by now redundant High Street box (2009)

 

East Holmes with 153315 passing 66003 which was on a RHTT (2006)

 

144011 heading towards West Holmes, with all three boxes replacement being constructed alongside. (2007)

 

[LNERGE]

11 hours ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

Great Eastern land today:

 

Padnal in 1983

 

... and another I need help identifying:

 

 

Also from the South Eastern side of London Victoria

 

 

 

 

 

Black Bank. Interesting intermediate block in rear. You took an up train on the block and could give out before the train got to you.

 

 

[Johann Marsbar]

Three from 1980.....

 

 

 

[Rivercider]

We have had photos of three of the five mechanical signal boxes that survived into the 1980s in the Avonmouth area. (Hallen Marsh, Holesmouth Junction, and Avonmouth Dock Junction.)

Here is St Andrews Junction which had a new lease of life controlling traffic at the Bristol Bulk Handling Terminal (BBHT). 

St Andrews Junction signal box before the BBHT opened for traffic, some time in 1993.

 

The fifth box was Avonmouth Town Goods Yard (corrected full name) seen in the background of this photo.

55032 B132 passes Avonmouth Town Goods Yard box and approaches St Andrews Road station on a service for Severn Beach, 5/2/81 

 

Does anyone have a better photo of the fifth box Avonmouth Town Goods?

 

cheers

Edited December 26, 2020 by Rivercider
Grammar

[Poor Old Bruce]

Something a bit different today in the form of a crossing keeper's hut but I feel it is includable as it has a signal box type name board. It's at Meardsall Crossing on the Midland's Lincoln line. Not manned when I saw it in 1983.

 

 

 

 

 

[Rivercider]

Back in 2017 I travelled on the West Somerset Railway during the last week of normal service in October.

There was some kind of signalling problem on the return journey, we stood for some time at Crowcombe Heathfield, but it did give the chance of a different view of the box.

 

Crowcombe Heathfield signal box 29/10/2017.

 

cheers

[Tim V]

3 hours ago, Rivercider said:

We have had photos of three of the five mechanical signal boxes that survived into the 1980s in the Avonmouth area.

Here is St Andrews Junction which had a new lease of life controlling traffic at the Bristol Bulk Handling Terminal (BBHT). 

St Andrews Junction signal box before the BBHT opened for traffic, some time in 1993.

 

The fifth box was Avonmouth Town Goods seen in the background of this photo.

55032 B132 passes Town Goods box and approaches St Andrews Road station on a service for Severn Beach, 5/2/81 

 

Does anyone have a better photo of the fifth box Avonmouth Town Goods?

 

cheers

You mean like this? 1975.

[Tim V]

These two make an interesting comparison. 1976 and 1995. Hallen Marsh.

 

[Rivercider]

9 minutes ago, Tim V said:

You mean like this? 1975.

Thanks. I have not seen that angle before. By the time I knew the area most of the PBA lines and connections to and from the BR network were out of use, including those in the foreground here. I think they are the former Corporation Lines.

 

cheers

[phil_sutters]

Another bunch of Dad's photos - three more S&D and some LMSR and NER ones - I haven't got the location of the photo with 61263 & 60978. It comes from a negative without any information. Dad couldn't have thought that the quality was worth printing. I probably could find the locos, and therefore the location, if I ploughed through his nearly twenty loco spotting log books. Perhaps someone could save me the time, by identifying where it was taken.

Edited December 26, 2020 by phil_sutters

[62613]

21 hours ago, LNERGE said:

Black Bank. Interesting intermediate block in rear. You took an up train on the block and could give out before the train got to you.

 

 

I think I can remember the IB distant was visible in the distance from Horsemoor? You could certainly see one a long way off towards Ely

 

[Dagworth]

28 minutes ago, 62613 said:

I think I can remember the IB distant was visible in the distance from Horsemoor? You could certainly see one a long way off towards Ely

 

Black Bank wouldn’t be visible from Horemoor, you had Manea and Stonea in the way. 
 

I presume the IBS was where Furlong Drove box had been? 
 

Andi

Edited December 26, 2020 by Dagworth

[eastwestdivide]

Wateringbury in August 1983:

 

and further north on the same line, Snodland in November 1983:

[LNERGE]

42 minutes ago, Dagworth said:

Black Bank wouldn’t be visible from Horemoor, you had Manea and Stonea in the way. 
 

I presume the IBS was where Furlong Drove box had been? 
 

Andi

Yes indeed. A very interesting stretch of line as the signals are still all there though not in their original guises. 

[phil_sutters]

Some from my visits to preserved lines and Island Line.

[Poor Old Bruce]

Today's were all taken in north Kent on 17 August 1983:

 

Ceabtree Crossing

 

Stone Crossing

 

 

Snodland

 

[62613]

2 minutes ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

Today's were all taken in north Kent on 17 August 1983:

 

Ceabtree Crossing

 

Stone Crossing

 

 

Snodland

 

First one; Crabtree Manorway, between Belvedere and Erith? If so, almost on my home turf. Which, trainwise was West Street Crossing, just up the line

 

[Rivercider]

Here is Barnstaple Town in 2010 forty years after closure of the line to Ilfracombe in 1970.

The buildings of Barnstaple Town station have seen many uses since the closure of the line.

 

 

Barnstaple Town signal box 21/9/2010

 

cheers

[Chris116]

Does anyone have a photo of the signal box that used to be on the platform at Southfields Station?