Michael Hodgson Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 37 minutes ago, 50A55B said: Are there any NE Region boom gates still in use? I believe not 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 4 hours ago, kandc_au said: Incredible pics here! A request if I may....Does anyone have any pics of the Thame Signal box? Please! Khris Thame, Oxfordshire? Here's the gap in 1978! Standard type of box, pictures on this thread of a couple the same. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted February 12, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2021 (edited) I have the index done to the end of page 23, but I realised that my colleague was going it in more detail than me, so I am going through the multiple entries separating them out. I am also moving information from the Comments column to the first column where appropriate. But here is progress to far. I'll work on the rest of the listing and add page 24 before I upload again. Now in alphabetical order. Jonathan Edited February 15, 2021 by corneliuslundie 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 1 hour ago, 50A55B said: Are there any NE Region boom gates still in use? Urlay Nook had boom gates to the end when it was replaced/demolished in 2019. Billingham in in the process of being replaced and the barriers went in first. Boom gates until recently. Billingham used to have a very tall wooden post bracket signal. It gets very windy in the north east. You can see why it was replaced with a much lower steel post assembly. Mike Wiltsihre 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Another oldie from the North East. Port Clarence on the Seal Sands branch Until the local scumbags had a bonfire Mike Wiltshire 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted February 12, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 12, 2021 Harling Road 16/02/2019 (Saturday) Harling Road signal box, ? Opened 1883, GER 4 ? McK&H, 25 levers, Abolished 01/12/2012 when Cambridge PSB took control of the level crossing and signalling 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
50A55B Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 Hertford East, 31-10-93. Not the clearest, but illustrating one of the more bizarre painting schemes, chocolate and cream front, white ends and NSE red stair banisters. The box is still there despite being long out of use, wearing the remains of this paint job. A move to the Wensleydale Railway is supposedly on the cards. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted February 12, 2021 Share Posted February 12, 2021 We've had New Mills South So here is New Mills Central in November 2016, taken whilst on the scenic route to Wakefield exhibition Andy 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 (edited) Who wanted some Scottish ones? Some piccies of these boxes have been seen before but these are from ground level rather than hanging out of a train window. All of today's from 11 June 1991. Edit to add, for the benefit of the indexers, that Stranraer and Dunragit are on lines built by the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway and that Barrhill was Glasgow and South Western Railway. Stranraer (Harbour as was) Dunragit and Barrhill Edited February 14, 2021 by Poor Old Bruce 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted February 13, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 13, 2021 Not much chance 0of social distancing when the inspector visits Barrhill, Jonathan 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted February 13, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 13, 2021 (edited) Now done up to the end of page 24. I’ll add each page as it is completed. 1148 photos so far, excluding odd signals etc. That';s impressive. I have had a change of plan. Originally I created one entry for each batch of photos of a particular box by one poster if the photos were taken on the sate date. I have decided that it is best if each photo has its own entry, so where necessary I have added entries and a few words of description to help those who may wish to refer to an individual photo. Photos not of signal boxes or ground frames are mentioned in the notes. I shall now add each page as it is completed. Over the weeks I also intend to add more information about the companies which built the boxes, but I may need some help. There is just one query remaining. There are two boxes just described as Cheltenham, but I believe that there were several boxes there. It will be useful if they can be identified uniquely. Jonathan PS Dates corrected - see below. Also Stockport and Denton Edited February 15, 2021 by corneliuslundie 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Gough Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 33 minutes ago, corneliuslundie said: Now done up to the end of page 24. I’ll add each page as it is completed. 1148 photos so far, excluding odd signals etc. That';s impressive. I have had a change of plan. Originally I created one entry for each batch of photos of a particular box by one poster if the photos were taken on the sate date. I have decided that it is best if each photo has its own entry, so where necessary I have added entries and a few words of description to help those who may wish to refer to an individual photo. Photos not of signal boxes or ground frames are mentioned in the notes. I shall now add each page as it is completed. Over the weeks I also intend to add more information about the companies which built the boxes, but I may need some help. There is just one query remaining. There are two boxes just described as Cheltenham, but I believe that there were several boxes there. It will be useful if they can be identified uniquely. Jonathan Signalboxes.xls 135 kB · 1 download A minor error - my Shirley photos are listed as taken on consecutive years whereas they were from the same day. I suspect it's due to Excel's automatic numbering function. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Excel's too damned clever ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted February 14, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 14, 2021 Actually, if contributors could "scan" through their entries, in the Excel list, then errors can be spotted and extra info added, that others may not see. I had a quick "sken", through my posts, and can see that Stockport No1, Stockport No2, and Denton Junction were all taken 900 years in the future! Not sure how that happened. (Must have been the way LibreOffice and Excel fight each other!) Kev. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Poor Old Bruce Posted February 14, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 14, 2021 Some more from the Glasgow and South Western on 11 June 1991: Pinwherry, best I could manage but better than nothing. and Girvan Plus a couple of shots of the Art Deco station building while I was there. 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 3 hours ago, Poor Old Bruce said: 3 hours ago, Poor Old Bruce said: There was a song written about this place .... Oh at Pinwherry Station one Saturday night, the moon it was high in the sky A weary inspector was lying awake for the very last train to go by But the engine was stuck, for the load was too great. The driver he wasn't depressed. Take half of them up to the top of the hill; then we'll come back for the rest. So they shunted them up to the top of the hill, just over the crest at Pinmoore Then they went back for the rest of the train as they did on occasions before. Well they'd coupled them up when the message came through; the driver sat down with a groan All those wagons we'd left at the top of Pinmoore were running away on their own. Well the runaway wagons started to go when the brake couldn't handle the strain They shot through the station at Pinwherry Dip with the speed of a passenger train. Well the rate they were going, it carried them on damn near to the top of the hill But the gradient won and they came to a stop. For a moment or two they were still. Ah, but now that the incline was in the reverse, those wagons were rolling once more Hurtling down to Pinwherry again and all the way back to Pinmoore Where they came to a stop. But it wasn't for long, and soon they were moving again And somewhere behind them the driver and guard were searching for half of the train. Well the wagons go up and the wagons go down, they were doing ten minutes a trip Till at last they were spent and they came to a rest at the bottom of Pinwherry dip. Ah, but back at the station, still lying awake, the inspector was cursing the light Saying, "I'm damned if I knew there were so many trains in the best bloody part of the night." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Photo by Bill Veloz : Reading East.... 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 4 hours ago, SHMD said: Actually, if contributors could "scan" through their entries, in the Excel list, then errors can be spotted and extra info added, that others may not see. I had a quick "sken", through my posts, and can see that Stockport No1, Stockport No2, and Denton Junction were all taken 900 years in the future! Not sure how that happened. (Must have been the way LibreOffice and Excel fight each other!) Kev. Thoresby Colliery has two entries for the same photo. I for one really appreciate the effort that has gone into making up this index. Andy 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 I can reply on Cheltenham. Lansdown Junction was the GWR box Alstone LC was the Midland box Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 That list is useful! To fill in the gaps: Kempston Road Junction (Bedford) in 1979, and Bedford Junction (?) in 1979 and 1980 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted February 14, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 14, 2021 21 hours ago, corneliuslundie said: Now done up to the end of page 24. I’ll add each page as it is completed. 1148 photos so far, excluding odd signals etc. That';s impressive. I have had a change of plan. Originally I created one entry for each batch of photos of a particular box by one poster if the photos were taken on the sate date. I have decided that it is best if each photo has its own entry, so where necessary I have added entries and a few words of description to help those who may wish to refer to an individual photo. Photos not of signal boxes or ground frames are mentioned in the notes. I shall now add each page as it is completed. Over the weeks I also intend to add more information about the companies which built the boxes, but I may need some help. There is just one query remaining. There are two boxes just described as Cheltenham, but I believe that there were several boxes there. It will be useful if they can be identified uniquely. Jonathan PS Dates corrected - see below. Also Stockport and Denton Signalboxes.xls 135 kB · 2 downloads My photos of Severn Bridge Junction currently recorded on rows 929 to 937 were taken on 16/06/2016. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted February 14, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 14, 2021 Thanks. Added to the database. J Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 A few from the North West Shaw Station swept away for the Tram extension to Rochdale. Smithy Bridge on the Rochdale - Leeds line Batley on the Stalybridge to Leeds line Mike Wiltshire 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 A couple from North Wales. My parents retired to Deganwy and these two were at the end of the road. Deganwy Crossing supported on the sea wall. and the lesser known, Deganwy Quay. Open for fixed hours and released by Deganwy crossing. This gave access to the marina. It was swept away and is now a hotel and housing estate. Mike Wiltshire 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Coach bogie Posted February 15, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 15, 2021 Not far from my current home, lets have a trip from Middlesbrough Eastwards in order - all still in place Bowesfield (listed before but included for continuity). Not functional but as an equipment room. Tees Yard Powerbox Middlesbrough Whitehouse Grangetown - junction for ex ICI and Tees Dock Redcar Longbeck - controls the junction for Boulby Potash/Skinningrove Steel branch and Saltburn Crag Hall - controls entrance to Skinningrove Steel works/line to Boulby Potash mine. 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now