Poor Old Bruce Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Some Merseyrail boxes today, all seen on 9 August 1983: Birkenhead North No.1 Birkenhead North No.2 New Brighton 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike_Walker Posted January 8, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 8, 2021 (edited) Some from deepest Kernow. Goonbarrow Junction St. Blazey. Par. Incidentally, St. Blazey to Goonbarrow Junction is the last section on Network Rail's Western Route to still employ box to box EKT working although there are many examples of NST (No Signaller Token) working to be found. Edited April 10, 2022 by Mike_Walker 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Something a bit different, the before picture with no box, and the replica box. Bodmin 1978 & 2012 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 (edited) Another Eastern delight Barlby 2014 And something from the other side of the country Norbury Hollow Crossing Andy Edited January 8, 2021 by SM42 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Same box, different locations, Dunster 1975 and Minehead 1978 and 2012. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted January 8, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 8, 2021 (edited) Swanage, and Corfe from the castle... Edited April 2, 2022 by Davexoc Photo restored 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Back in 2013 at Bodmin I was invited into the box, Bodmin General 15/5/2013 cheers 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted January 8, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 8, 2021 11 hours ago, Poor Old Bruce said: Some Merseyrail boxes today, all seen on 9 August 1983: No.2 nameboard - the replacement for one of those as the LMS one was rotten, is a couple of yards from me as I type this. Sadly I had to sell North No.1 and New Brighton boards about 9 years ago - they were too big to move when I came down to Norfolk. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 More from 9 august 1983 Bidston Dee Junction Bidston East Junction Birkenhead Park 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted January 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 9, 2021 (edited) The person who built that model of Bidston East Junction could have got the flues a bit straighter! My only other offering is from Ireland. I hope it is not too far off piste. Taken sometime over 25 years ago on a RPSI tour. The interiors are Mullingar. For the first see a later posts. At least I assume the first one is Mullingar as it is immediately before the signal diagram in my photos! Jonathan Edited January 10, 2021 by corneliuslundie Corrected info 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted January 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 9, 2021 (edited) And a couple of the locking frame which we were allowed to visit. I have a few others taken on the same tour but I don't now have a clue where they are. Jonathan Edited January 9, 2021 by corneliuslundie Added comment 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Simon Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 On 08/01/2021 at 10:24, Mike_Walker said: Incidentally, St. Blazey to Goonbarrow Junction is the last section on Network Rail's Western Route to still employ box to box EKT working although there are many examples of NST (No Signaller Token) working to be found. Not for that much longer Simon 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOCJACOB Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Before I get a complaint for flagrant GCR/NER bias I give you this offering. I think I visited Canterbury as part of my Diploma in Geriatric Medicine exam 14/5/91 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 (edited) On 09/01/2021 at 12:36, corneliuslundie said: The person who built that model of Bidston East Junction could have got the flues a bit straighter! My only other offering is from Ireland. I hope it is not too far off piste. Mullingar sometime over 25 years ago on a RPSR tour. At least I assume the first one is Mullingar as it is immediately before the signal diagram in my photos! Jonathan Afraid not - this is Mullingar (11/09/2011 ) : - .... nowhere near a level crossing ! 'About 25 years ago' could have been 1995 when the RPSI tour stopped at Killucan before Mullingar : I have a note of an 'anonymous signalbox' there - but my photos haven't found my way to the scanner yet ! It doesn't match my 1995 phots of Killucan ....... the previous May Tour visit to Mullingar seems to have been 1987 ( my first ) when we went down the old Athlone main line as far as Moate : THAT looks like the place ! Edited February 5, 2021 by Wickham Green too 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Radstock West at Radstock 1975, and then at Didcot 1978 and 1998. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted January 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 9, 2021 (edited) Broadway just over two years ago.. Edited April 2, 2022 by Davexoc Photo restored 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted January 9, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 9, 2021 9 hours ago, Poor Old Bruce said: More from 9 august 1983 Bidston East Junction Nicknamed the BEast - a very busy box to work, controlled the junction with the West Kirby and New Brighton lines along with the connection to the dock lines and Birkenhead North depot, a lot of lever pulling and an LMS numbered frame to boot (part of which came from Exhibition Junction (Edge Hill) when renewed in the 1970s) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted January 9, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 9, 2021 Thanks Wickham Green too. I had a nasty feeling from what little I remembered of the box that it wasn't Mullingar. But the interior pics definitely are as it was the only box we went in. I have a feeling that it was only a short time before one of the routes to Mullingar line closed, but that also may be fiction. The tour started at Dublin and my memory suggests that we went down the Galway line, spending the night at an hotel somewhere out that way, possibly Athlone, than next day across to Mullingar via Gort (where I nearly got left behind) and back to Dublin. I took lots of photos but many are pretty poor quality and I never catalogued them at the time. The only other clue is that we got a look in the boxes at Ennis and Athenry, though I think it was probably from the doorway. I do have another photos which I can now recognise from your photo as being Mullingar. If only I had kept better records at the time. And re date, it was pre Euro as the beer was a pound or a punt a pint! Jonathan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 I've found the relevant photos - and irrelevant : Killucan ( 14/5/94 ) and Edgeworthstown ( totally irrelevant to the Mullingar discussion but it was the same day an' it's a photo of a signal box cabin ) plus Moate from both ends ( 10/5/87 ). We did the Athlone - Mullingar line in full in '88 and I seem to recall nearly getting left at Gort on that trip too ( a feat I accomplished at Lisburn many years later ). The old main line via Moate had only been retained for the night mail train until some time in '87 but was kept as a 'siding' for a number of years after that - I think the May Tour only did the full length once more after '88. 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnw1 Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 Grantham – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/8753040956/ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdseyecircus Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Walton Street, Hull. Mid 80s. Hull - Bridlington line. Paul 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted January 10, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10, 2021 (edited) 13 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: We did the Athlone - Mullingar line in full in '88 and I seem to recall nearly getting left at Gort on that trip too ( a feat I accomplished at Lisburn many years later ). The old main line via Moate had only been retained for the night mail train until some time in '87 but was kept as a 'siding' for a number of years after that - I think the May Tour only did the full length once more after '88. We just missed doing the Mullingar - Athlone line by a few weeks on our first trip as the night mail had just stopped using the route. Annoyingly we were standing at Athlone station when a football special came off that route. A few more phots taken in Ireland during our later 1988 trip. Athenry Claremorris Edited January 10, 2021 by roundhouse 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted January 10, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10, 2021 A few more from 1988 when we had a cab pass to enable us to ride the freight lines. Foynes Ennis And Gort which I posted in another thread recently. 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 (edited) A couple of poor shots ( as far as signal boxes are concerned ) at Reading 17/8/86 : 43.171 departing for Penzance ( 08.45 from Pad.) ...... 1967 Panel Box in the background of the first and Main Line West box ( I presume ) to the left of the going-away - would that be West Goods box cowering under the bracket ? Edited February 5, 2021 by Wickham Green too 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Anglesey Valley, 18 Sept 2013 Ty Croes, 25 June 2013 Gaerwen, 10 Sept 1991 ..... ..... and 10 June 2018 after a bit of 'modernising'. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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