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Rye was my thought - but I've not got a photo to confirm ( Thought I had - but ! ).

 

...... anyway, another handful that've passed through my scanner recently : - 

 

 

Sandown : 21/06/1986

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Hawkesbury Street Junction : 07/06/1986

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Woking : 23/03/1986

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Harrow No.2 : 8/03/1986

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Betteshanger Colliery : 15/10/1985

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Bury St. Edmunds Yard : 28/11/1985145_33.jpg.b6b638c873736f9248a7338f1dc56472.jpg

 

 

.......... the anonymous ones are Sandown ( fairly obvious ) Betteshanger Colliery & Bury St. Edmunds Yard.

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On Saturday the 21st of August 2018, I took the Stalybridge "Flyer" to Stockport and back.

This is (was?) a Parliamentary Service with only one train a week (none since Covid though).

 

The main reason for this journey, apart from to show support for the Denton/Reddish train reinstatement pressure groups, was to photograph the LNWR Tpye4 Signal Cabins that are still there.

 

Having arrived at Stockport, I'll start off with "Stockport No.1".

This is a LNWR standard Type 4 design fitted with a 98 "Tumbler" Lever Frame. It was originally built in 1884.

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The west end view of "Stockport No.1" shows the chamfered end to allow trains to come into Platform 4.

This view also shows the additional (Fire) escape added as it is such a long cabin.

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This east end view shows that chamfer, at the far end, although the guttering carries straight on.

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This is a great box for taking detailed photos and notes of.

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Moving onto "Stockport No.2", at the North end of the Station, we also have an LNWR Type 4 Cabin, built in 1890, with a 90 Lever Tumbler frame.

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How many stations still have 2 Signal boxes on them?

(Also, there are 2 more LNWR Type 4 54 Lever Tumbler framed boxes just west of Stockport No.1 cabin at Edgeley.)

 

A better view of the box with a train coming into the much newer "Platform 0"!

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When they built this box, they (most probably) cocked up the measurements of the brickwork because the "Standard Windows" did not fit and they had to make a "special one" for this cabin. can you spot it. (Yes I know it's all PVC now but it is a 130 years old!)

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Leaving Stockport, for Stalybridge, this view also shows the additional (Fire) escape that has been added at some (recent?) time.

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Enroute, and having just departed the "Request stop" of Denton, we come across the once "Denton Jn.".

This must have been a busy box  once as 3 double lines joined here and were squeezed down to 1 quadruple line onward to Stockport.

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As you can see, it is now just "Denton".

Again, an LNWR Type 4 cabin, from 1888, but with only 18 Levers(!) in a Tumble frame. I Guess the box at Denton Station had all the crossovers.

This has the windows arranged as 2+3+3+3+2 which would make it a Type 4 size L box, which is capable of accommodating 55 Levers!

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Kev.

 

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4 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

It doesn't have a box board, so it presumably wasn't operational.  No point rodding or signal wires issuing from the base just cable ducting so it didn't control any semaphores.

 

No chimney or stove pipe, so modern electric heating ?

 

 

 

Circa 1980, rationalisation and singling took place on the line between Appledore and Ore, known to colleagues as the Ponderosa. Tokenless block was introduced, and I think Rye was the control point. Hence no semaphores or manual points, and that fairly modern looking troughing route across the front of the box. 

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A few more from the archives

 

Chapel-en-le-Frith, Nov 2016

 

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Lichfield  TV Jn  (this one posted elsewhere on RMWeb too) c 1997 / 98. One of the few boxes still working in the wider West Midlands area

 

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Fosse Way Crossing, Lichfield 2016

 

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Thoresby Colliery, October 2018

 

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52 minutes ago, Davexoc said:

Haven't seen this one posted yet.

 

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By 2014 that signal had been vandalised modernised :bad:

 

 

 

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Andy

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Sleaford East to go with your North. And yes, that is a summer weekend service, August 1st 2009 at around 6 in the afternoon....

 

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South Fork, Croes Newydd (not Dallas), 3 Sept 1979

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Cockshute Sdgs, Stoke-on-Trent, 31 Aug 1979

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Two with privileged access:

Shap Summit, August 1967 with 70012 on a down freight.

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Derby Station North, 6 Mar 1966, with 60019 BITTERN on an excursion from Manchester via Stoke.

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Following on from SM42 excellent images here is the third Sleaford box (West). It is unusual in that there is a pedestrian tunnel instead of wickets and the crossing gates are only on one side of the road. The railway only being gated off on the Sleaford East side.

 

Mike Wiltshire

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Eridge back in 1982.

 

I still have my 4mm scale model of this box built 40 years ago for my first exhibition layout. Its a shame that despite surviving many years out of use amnogst bushes that the real one was eventaully demolished.

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On 25/12/2020 at 07:02, Chris Turnbull said:

Here's a couple more I've found,  Manchester Victoria and St Pancras in April and September 1968 respectively.

 

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Chris Turnbull


In his excellent book “Danger Signals”, Stanley Hall asks if Reading (Panel Signalbox) is “the nadir of signal box design?”. Based on the picture above I’d say this one at Manchester Victoria could be a contender too.

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A few boxes I photographed over the hyears, though not brilliant photos. I don't think they have appeared previously;

Barmouth South

 

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Ely South

 

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Ely North

 

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Eridge has been shown before but here is one of mine:

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Porthmadog

 

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Jonathan

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I always feel uneasy about Eridge box. I visited it once in 1973, as a guest of Doug, the SM. In 1985 I was asked to project-manage the closure from Grove Junction to Birchden Junction, and in 1987 I wrote the investment submission for resignalling and rationalisation from Hurst Green to Uckfield.

 

I suppose in most careers there are jobs you don't enjoy doing. 

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