Wickham Green too Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 1 hour ago, D826 said: ........ In the Aylesbury shot you can see loads of Dutch liveried departmental in the nest of sidings by the Gyratory/Equitable life building. ........ ........ not just in the sidings but on the 'main' line too : signalling works and - obviously - track renewal too : - 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 From different countries today: Ramsgate, England, late 1980s Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberywtwyth, Wales, 10 June 1981 Kingussie, Scotland 30 April 2017 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 18 hours ago, Rivercider said: Scene from afar (those with local knowledge might get the pun) An unidentified class 155 set passes the Westbury Panel Signal Box on a service towards Bristol. 3/7/91. (the photo was taken from the Farr building - formerly occupied by A E Farr - BR temporarily used some of the building for office accommodation at the advent of Trainload Freight.) cheers There's a modern Doctor's surgery in Rugby which looks very similar in style to Westbury power box and not far away is a block of apartments which is a dead ringer for the main station building at Newton Abbot! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 3 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: There's a modern Doctor's surgery in Rugby which looks very similar in style to Westbury power box and not far away is a block of apartments which is a dead ringer for the main station building at Newton Abbot! ....... and the gullible owners thought the zillions of quid they'd paid the architect was for something new and original. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Minffordd in 1974. Ffestiniog (GWR) in 1978. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Some West Midlands miscellany, with a Yorkshire tail Henly In Arden c2007. Brereton Sidings 1997 Bloxwich 1997 Hednesford No1. c1997 and finally Quay Crossing, Bridlington c 1995 Andy 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted December 30, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2020 Ravenglass, 2017. No longer operational but still clearly cherished. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted December 30, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 30, 2020 Suppose I should have posted this one last week really.... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 11 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: ........ not just in the sidings but on the 'main' line too : signalling works and - obviously - track renewal too : - The building behind the 47 is called the blue leany in the town like the photos of the town box . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted December 30, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 30, 2020 I have just spent a happy hour, having discovered this thread. Very many thanks to all the contributors. A tall order but does anyone have a publishable quality colour photo of Bangor-on-Dee, Overton -on-Dee or Newbridge box - all ex Cambrian Dutton designs? The WRRC is looking for a suitable photo for the front cover of a small drawings book which includes these boxes. BTW I know that the first two boxes had no hyphens on the nameboards, but the railway companies seem to have included them more often than not on tickets and in timetables as did OS maps. Jonathan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted December 30, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 30, 2020 52 minutes ago, lmsforever said: The building behind the 47 is called the blue leany in the town like the photos of the town box . OT, but the blue leany (Equitable Life) is further to the left out of shot. That is Lloyd's as it's side are vertical... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D826 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 (edited) Equally OT... The Blue Leanie was by the Brookside Clinic, where the youff of Aylesbury had "its boiler tubes swept and fire box de clinkered" after "shunting incidents with condemned stock"....it was also where "water treatment pills" and other essential items made by the London Rubber Co were distributed. Where's a winking emoji eh ? Best regards Matt W Edited December 30, 2020 by D826 Biological humour ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 I stand corrected it is indeed the Lloyds building also if anybody wants to see inside a large signal box go on the Chinnor and Princes Risborough Rly website and check when the box at Risboro is open .The box is being restored and is well worth a visit and the volunteres will show how it all works. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Anglesea Sidings, near Chasewater, 30 Aug 1983 Brancliffe East Junction, between Sheffield and Worksop, in 1986 Derby Junction, 8 March 1964 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 (edited) In later years the signal box at Dawlish was only open on summer Saturdays, or when there was emergency working. Dawlish signal box 19/7/80. The box survived for many years after closure, but being very exposed to the elements took its toll. Here the box is shrink wrapped. 8/6/2013 Sadly it no longer survives cheers Edited December 31, 2020 by Rivercider clarification 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 14 hours ago, corneliuslundie said: I have just spent a happy hour, having discovered this thread. Very many thanks to all the contributors. A tall order but does anyone have a publishable quality colour photo of Bangor-on-Dee, Overton -on-Dee or Newbridge box - all ex Cambrian Dutton designs? The WRRC is looking for a suitable photo for the front cover of a small drawings book which includes these boxes. BTW I know that the first two boxes had no hyphens on the nameboards, but the railway companies seem to have included them more often than not on tickets and in timetables as did OS maps. Jonathan Isn't there some connection between Newbridge and Erwood box? 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D826 Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Kevin, Cracking photo of Dawlish. We used to stay in the Beach Hotel. You could sit in the bay window look through a pair of binoculars at the station and watch as the signalman pulled the home signal outside Kennaway tunnel on or off. I was alway fascinated by the sound of the signal wires and pulleys subtly trembling and what almost looked like a rippling motion from the station signal box to the signal, followed by that lovely diminishing sound as the signal arm bounced to off... Summer Saturdays in the early to mid 70s trains could still be seen block to block. Very happy memories indeed. Cracking picture the first one, second is a bit sad. Absence of freight, and the infrequency, and lack of 'presence' of trains means Dawlish doesnt have the magic it once had. Happy New Year Kevin (and fellow RMwebbers) and keep your photos - and memories coming. Much appreciated and much enjoyed by myself and others - a bit like Dave F of this Parish's everlasting photo stream ! Happy New Year Matt W 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 In 1983 I visited Pantyffynnon and had a little walk around. Ammanford signal box, formerly Ammanford Station Signal Box, 4/11/83. cheers 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 Photo c/o Anthony Gregory and Signalman Pete 'Snowy' Hill : Desford Colliery box on the Knighton - Burton line, aka 'the branch'.... 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 We moved to Aberdeen from London for a couple of years and I made a point of photographing as many of the local boxes as possible. The signalman at Newtonhill put me on to this one at Pitcaple to the north of Aberdeen. It had been closed for years but survived in the undergrowth. You would not find it by chance. Mike Wiltshire 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted December 31, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 31, 2020 Indeed. From the Erwood website: "The Newbridge on Wye Station signal box was found on a farm being used as a chicken shed by John Wake, was restored on 2004 and has been reconstructed and sits on the exact site, and size, of the Erwood box. It is owned by John Wake but on permanent loan. It was rebuilt with help from the Radnorshire Wildlife Trust as a bat and bird observatory. " Unfortunately for our purposes though it looks very nice it has been altered too much to be used in the book alongside Mike Lloyd's drawing of the box. Among other things, it has been re-assembled "left handed" and reduced in length. Jonathan 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted December 31, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 31, 2020 Haltwhistle on a sunny April evening 2007 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 (edited) A couple today where trains have got in the way: Christ's Hospital 12 June 1965 with 41287 on the 15:09 Horsham to Guildford train, this was then last day of services on that route. Nottingham Victoria, 17 July 1964 with 90037 on a down freight. Ventnor, 6 June 1965. A blow-up of a shot off the end of the platform as No. 20 was running round. Note the three-way point on the running line. Breadsall Crossing on the Midland north of Derby 23 July 1965 with 48060 passing on freight An anonymous little 'box which I think is somewhere on the South Eastern in the 1980s looking almost as if it could have just been built. Any offers on ID please? Edit: Oldudders and others suggest it is Rye. Thanks folks. Edited January 2, 2021 by Poor Old Bruce To add ID for Rye 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted January 1, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2021 No idea on the ID of the last 'box, but an interesting little "shelter" off to the left. Perhaps there used to be a set of points to a loop or siding(s) that required points heating, and this is where the gas bottles were? Pure guess work on my part - and probably, as usual with my guesses, no where near being right! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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