Signal Box Photos

[SM42]

A random selection today

 

 

To go with Gainsborough Lea Road we have

 

Gaisnborough Central in 2014

 

 

On this day Lea Road was a burnt out shell surrounded by scaffolding

 

Attleborough 2015

 

 

And now for some all brick efforts

 

Runcorn 2013

 

 

Crewe Bank, Shrewsbury in 2014

 

 

And finally off abroad again to this interesting little building on the outskirts of Zagan, Poland, 2013. (note the lovely April weather ) It is near a level crossing and I presume it had some role in relation to the crossing.

 

 

Those who have an interest in WW2 history may recognisethe name  Zagan.

 

Stalag Luft III of the Great Escape was on the outskirts of the town and a short walk from this building.

 

Andy

 

 

Edited March 11, 2021 by SM42
fat fingers

[Poor Old Bruce]

17 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

Was that when Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch was spelled in full ?

 

Not in my picture. It looks like it could be the same nameboard, just moved to the front of the box. There may not have been one at the other end at that time.

 

11 hours ago, SM42 said:

To go with Gainsborough Lea Road we have

 

Gaisnborough Central in 2014

 

 

On this day Lea Road was a burnt out shell surrounded by scaffolding

 

I can offer a monochrome Gainsborough Central (GCR) on 6 Aug 1979

[Poor Old Bruce]

Here we are, Llanfair,P,G, LNWR, on 11 Sept 1991

 

 

 

Pelham Street Junction, Lincoln, Great Northern, back lit in the weak November sunshine of 26 Nov 1991

 

 

and contrasts at Kidderminster, seen on 24 Aug 1994.

Kidderminster Station Signal Box on the Severn Valley Railway

 

and, not far away, the BR one called Kidderminster Junction

[corneliuslundie]

"and the 'box at Beamish ( p.15, labelled 'Rowley' for the reconstructed station ) came from Carr House East."

I can't find a Beamish photo on page 15. There is one on page 22.

Jonathan

[Wickham Green too]

That's odd ! ........... I can't find a Beamish photo on p.15 either ..... must be the one on p.22 !

 

Here's an interior shot for p.33 : 1/10/19

 

..... someone polish those lever tops PLEASE !

Edited September 4, 2022 by Wickham Green too
photo reinstated

[corneliuslundie]

Newest list on last page.

Jonathan

 

Edited March 17, 2021 by corneliuslundie

[Tim V]

Newton Abbot East and West 1978.

[Poor Old Bruce]

I think these are all Great Eastern today.

 

Whitlingham Junction, 28 June 1994

 

Wroxham, also 28 June 1994

 

 

and Yarmouth Vauxhall, the following day, 29 June 1994

 

 

[LNERGE]

3 hours ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

I think these are all Great Eastern today.

 

Whitlingham Junction, 28 June 1994

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whitlingham Junction signalbox door is still going strong. It was replaced a couple of months before the box closed. It's now the relay room door on my Ely Dock Junction..

[Wickham Green too]

Another miscellany with a largely north of the border flavour : - 

 

Winning ; N.E.R. ( 1895 ) ; 27/9/83

 

Comrie ; Stirling & Dunfirmline Railway ; 28/9/83

 

Craigendoran Jn ; N.B.R. ? ; 29/9/83

 

Craigendoran Jn ; replacement British Railways cabin ( 1984-1992 ) taking shape ; 29/9/83

 

Crowborough ; L.B.S.C.R. ; 1/7/85

 

Oxted ; S.E.R. type ; 1/7/85

 

Oxted : British Railways, 1987 - with remnants of the old box ; 8/9/87

 

Banavie ; old ( N.B.R. ) & new ( B.R.) cabins ; 27/3/87

 

Banavie ; N.B.R. ( interior ) ; 27/3/87

 

Inchture ; Caledonian Railway ; 28/3/87

Edited September 4, 2022 by Wickham Green too
Photos reinstated

[Poor Old Bruce]

More Great Eastern stuff.

 

My take of Reedham Junc on 22 June 1994

 

 

and Reedham Swing Bridge on the same date. Best I could do, I'm afraid.

 

 

 

and the equally inaccessible Somerleyton Swing Bridge, 29 June 1994. Better than nothing (just!)

 

Edited March 14, 2021 by Poor Old Bruce
Typo

[Rugd1022]

The delightful St.Mary's Crossing in the Golden Valley....

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tim V]

Ropley 2003.

[Poor Old Bruce]

Some more from East Anglia:

 

Lowestoft, Great Eastern Railway, 29 June 1994

 

North Walsham, GER, 28 June 1994

 

 

Weybourne, 28 June 1994. Preserved one on the North Norfolk Railway, an original M&GNJR box, apparently moved from Holt, next station down the line.

 

Sherringham East, also North Norfolk Railway. Another ex M&GNJR box, seen on 27 June 1994 during the time it spent on the station platform. It has now been moved back to the level crossing.

[Poor Old Bruce]

Maltby Colliery South on the South Yorkshire Joint line, 22 Sept 1991

 

Saxilby, on the GN & GC Joint line between Lincoln and Gainsborough, 26 Nov 1991

 

Stow Park, another one on the GN & GC Joint line between Lincoln and Gainsborough, 26 Nov 1991

 

and Seamer East, 24 Oct 1991

 

 

[Tim V]

I'm not familiar with Seamer, is that a former box?

[iands]

4 minutes ago, Tim V said:

I'm not familiar with Seamer, is that a former box?

Yep. Both now redundant (area now controlled from York ROC). Not been that way for quite a while due to Covid restrictions, so don't know if they are both still standing or have been demolished.

[Boris]

50 minutes ago, iands said:

Yep. Both now redundant (area now controlled from York ROC). Not been that way for quite a while due to Covid restrictions, so don't know if they are both still standing or have been demolished.

That's not controlled by the ROC unfortunately.  The derelict box was the original Seamer box before the existing Seamer East box was added and the old one became redundant about 1911ish, Seamer West was about half a mile further Up towards the Junction for the coast.

[Tim V]

This one was in Warrington, but I couldn't get near enough to read the name, plus don't have any books on that area. Missed a connection at Bank Quay, an hour's wait! 2007.

Plus Dinting in 1987.

[LMS2968]

Top one is Arpley Jct.

[iands]

4 hours ago, Boris said:

That's not controlled by the ROC unfortunately.  The derelict box was the original Seamer box before the existing Seamer East box was added and the old one became redundant about 1911ish, Seamer West was about half a mile further Up towards the Junction for the coast.

Thanks for the correction Boris, senior moment on my part, jumping the gun a bit on that one.

[Wickham Green too]

4 hours ago, Boris said:

That's not controlled by the ROC unfortunately.  The derelict box was the original Seamer box before the existing Seamer East box was added and the old one became redundant about 1911ish, Seamer West was about half a mile further Up towards the Junction for the coast.

The question is why on earth did the York & North Midland 'box survive for all those years ......... maybe as a P'Way mess room when I took my photo in 1983 - but it looks thoroughly disused by 1991.

[Boris]

4 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

The question is why on earth did the York & North Midland 'box survive for all those years ......... maybe as a P'Way mess room when I took my photo in 1983 - but it looks thoroughly disused by 1991.

I would agree it's definitely been used as something, especially seeing as its largely still in LNER sand/green which would indicate use post closure, I have a colleague at work who I can ask, he might know.

[Poor Old Bruce]

18 hours ago, Tim V said:

I'm not familiar with Seamer, is that a former box?

 

If you Google Seamer Signal Box, you'll get the story.

[Wickham Green too]

That's where I got my date of 1911 for the 'new' box .......... doesn't explain why they kept the old one for eighty two years tho'.