Signal Box Photos

[Tim V]

What happened to the frame!

[Tim V]

Corfe Castle 2009.

[Mike_Walker]

5 minutes ago, Tim V said:

What happened to the frame!

It was resignalled in Oct 2006 to control the whole line between Oxley and Abbey Foregate.  Don't know what happened to the original frame.  It was a LMR Type 15 'box built in 1969.

[Tim V]

Forgot to say, my picture of Madeley dates from 1996.

Cosford from 1998.

 

 

Codsall 1998.

 

[Poor Old Bruce]

To the North East in 1985

 

Alnmouth, NER

 

 

Boldon Colliery

 

[corneliuslundie]

See last page

Jonathan

 

Edited June 14, 2021 by corneliuslundie

[Poor Old Bruce]

Still in North Eastern land in 1985

 

I haven't got  the name of this first one although it may be in my spotting book of the day if I could be bothered to look for it. In sequence it's between yesterday's Boldon Colliery and East Boldon so it's in that neck of the woods.

Edit: beast66606 tells us it's Tile Shed.

It's also another for the classic car folks out there. Is that an Alpha Romeo badge below the number plate?

 

 

 

East Boldon

 

Edited June 12, 2021 by Poor Old Bruce
Toa add 'Tile Shed'

[uax6]

Its an Alfasud of some description... Look at the rust down at the bottom of the door! A V reg  (so 1979) so its not done too badly!

 

Andy G

[beast66606]

36 minutes ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

I haven't got  the name of this first one although it may be in my spotting book of the day if I could be bothered to look for it. In sequence it's between yesterday's Boldon Colliery and East Boldon so it's in that neck of the woods.

 

 

 

 

 

Tile Shed

[Poor Old Bruce]

32 minutes ago, uax6 said:

Its an Alfasud of some description... Look at the rust down at the bottom of the door! A V reg  (so 1979) so its not done too badly!

 

Andy G

 

So it's got into that rusty condition after only six years! They said the Vauxhall Victor was a rot box, how long did they last?

 

19 minutes ago, beast66606 said:

Tile Shed

 

Thanks again to you beasty. I don't think a name like that was ever on my Radar. Presumably the Boldon area bit is correct?

[Dunsignalling]

Indeed, the Alfasud, whilst quite delightful when new, had a dire reputation for rotting out quicker than almost anything else. One of my mates reckoned you could hear them rusting!

 

The only decent one over ten years old that I ever encountered had been subjected to the "Full Monty" range of WaxOyl treatments on delivery.

 

John

Edited June 10, 2021 by Dunsignalling

[Johann Marsbar]

Just spotted these two when I was looking for my 1999 Total Eclipse photos....

 

Par..

 

 

Lostwithiel

 

 

 

[Tim V]

Clarbeston Road 1980 GWR.

 

East Usk Junction 1997 BRWR.

 

Ferryside 1997 GWR. 

 

Ffairfach 1980 GWR.

[Wickham Green too]

Brucie was kind enough to give us Madeley on the last page ...... here it is a Brownhills on 6/9/19. The ladder belongs to Staffordshire Fire & Rescue who'd sent two appliances to put out a fire that'd started in the eaves - though not near any wiring nor where a locomotive spark might lodge .... bit of a mystery !

 

Another 'box that's still with us - but as yet absent from this thread : St.Albans South : Midland Railway : 15/1/89 

 

..... and as restored : 15/1/11 ( 22 years later – to the day ! )

Edited May 11, 2022 by Wickham Green too
Photos reinstated

[Poor Old Bruce]

Kirkby Summit, 1985. That's Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, a BR(LMR) design.

 

Frisby Station, between Syston and Melton Mowbray, 1986, an LMS design I think

 

 

and another anonymous one which is next in sequence to the Frisby photos so may be in that neck of the woods, it may equally be nowhere near as it is taken out of a train while Frisby was taken from the ground. Either way, it's a decapitated Midland box which is not Great Rocks.

Edit: Thank you to @Andrea506 and   @beast66606for telling us it's Kibworth Station box after closure in 1986

Edited June 12, 2021 by Poor Old Bruce
To add 'Kibworth Station'

[Andrea506]

3 hours ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

Kirkby Summit, 1985. That's Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, a BR(LMR) design.

 

Frisby Station, between Syston and Melton Mowbray, 1986, an LMS design I think

 

 

and another anonymous one which is next in sequence to the Frisby photos so may be in that neck of the woods, it may equally be nowhere near as it is taken out of a train while Frisby was taken from the ground. Either way, it's a decapitated Midland box which is not Great Rocks.

Kibworth? Presumably immediately after closure with the nameboard missing.

[Poor Old Bruce]

11 hours ago, Andrea506 said:

Kibworth? Presumably immediately after closure with the nameboard missing.

 

Thanks for the offer although the door and windows are open suggesting it was still working. Most (admittedly not all) MML boxes had name boards on the ends. IIRC there were Kibworth Station and Kibworth North

[beast66606]

23 minutes ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

 

Thanks for the offer although the door and windows are open suggesting it was still working. Most (admittedly not all) MML boxes had name boards on the ends. IIRC there were Kibworth Station and Kibworth North

 

That's station - also noticed the downed colour light just beyond the box, the view shows the base from the underside so probably soon after closure - 29/06/1986

[rodent279]

On 10/06/2021 at 19:45, Wickham Green too said:

Brucie was kind enough to give us Madeley on the last page ...... here it is a Brownhills on 6/9/19. The ladder belongs to Staffordshire Fire & Rescue who'd sent two appliances to put out a fire that'd started in the eaves - though not near any wiring nor where a locomotive spark might lodge .... bit of a mystery !

 

Another 'box that's still with us - but as yet absent from this thread : St.Albans South : Midland Railway : 15/1/89 

 

..... and as restored : 15/1/11 ( 22 years later – to the day ! )

I must pay St Albans South a visit. I passed it many times on my commute between Bedford & Elstree, later to St Albans. Here it is in April 2005, just before restoration started.

 

 

[Poor Old Bruce]

I stopped at Bedale, North Eastern Railway, on 28 November 1996 and took the opportunity to take several photos of the box from as many different angles as I could, while I could. The number of photos may be tedious to some but I hope others may find the different views worth the effort.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plus a photo taken on a previous visit on 1 April 1985 with the earlier level crossing barrier.

 

Just wikipeed it to find that the box is Grade II listed and part of the Wensleydale Railway preservation scheme. Also my last photo looks a lot like their photo of Leeming Bar station. 

Edit: Leeming Bar confirmed by @figworthy

Edited June 13, 2021 by Poor Old Bruce

[Nick Gough]

Harling Road in Norfolk on Monday 31st May 2021:

 

As a bonus, only a few hundred yards away from this establishment:

[figworthy]

10 hours ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

 

Just wikipeed it to find that the box is Grade II listed and part of the Wensleydale Railway preservation scheme. Also my last photo looks a lot like their photo of Leeming Bar station.

 

The last one is Leeming Bar (which now has gates), but there have been a few changes since the photo was taken.

 

Adrian

[Poor Old Bruce]

The day before Bedale (i.e. 27 oct 1996), I ended up at Hexham and took the opportunity to get several shots of the elevated North eastern box there. Different from the usual telephoto shot from the station platform.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Oldddudders]

Good to see Hexham in close-up. It periodically features on Dave F's excellent photo-thread, but as you say, from a distance. West Croydon A was similar, I think. That's been gone 40 years. 

[Poor Old Bruce]

At or around the East Anglian Railway Museum at Chappel and Wakes Colne on 8 Jan 1998. Firmly Great Eastern territory.

 

Chappel North

 

 

Chappel South

 

 

 

and just Chappel