Signal Box Photos

[Michael Hodgson]

12 hours ago, Davexoc said:

A bit OT really, but popped up today, Sellafield box, the fairer sex have taken over....

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cumbria-57544365

That's progress for you - she receives the signals from the box in advance.  

[beast66606]

2 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:

That's progress for you - she receives the signals from the box in advance.  

 

And only offers on when the train arrives

[beast66606]

39 minutes ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

Holyhead, 5 Aug 1987, with a 47 lurking inside the old loco shed

Is this an LMS style box?

 

 

Also Holyhead Freightliner Terminal Frame, a BR(LMR) type. with a ladies bicycle parked by the steps.

 

 

Holyhead opened in 1938, replacing several LNWR boxes around the station, originally it had 100 levers.

 

Levers 1-15 were removed in 1968 and used to build your next photo, the 15 lever Freightliner Terminal Frame - reducing it to 85 levers but .. the remaining 85 levers were replaced by a new 85 lever frame in 1969 which was extended (back) to 100 levers in the 1970s - this was relocked in 1987 (thanks to various for the info) - phew.

 

Freightliner Terminal Frame closed in 1994.

Edited June 21, 2021 by beast66606
clarification

[Poor Old Bruce]

The best I can do at the moment for dating these is some time in the 1980s

 

A Caledonian Railway box, I think between Edinburgh and Carstairs. I hope someone will be able to tell us its name.

 

Some from the Manchester area

 

Agecroft Junction

 

Deal Street, opposite Manchester Exchange

 

Irwell Bridge Sidings, a few yards from Deal Street

 

and Ashburys West, GCR

[Moxy]

41 minutes ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

The best I can do at the moment for dating these is some time in the 1980s

 

A Caledonian Railway box, I think between Edinburgh and Carstairs. I hope someone will be able to tell us its name.

 

 

 

It's West Calder, the remains of the sign are on the ground in front of it.  There is another slightly earlier picture here from Railscot website

 

https://www.railscot.co.uk/img/50/788/

Edited June 22, 2021 by Moxy
Spelling mistake

[DIRTY DIESEL]

On 21/06/2021 at 10:28, beast66606 said:

 

And only offers on when the train arrives

I’ll offering & sectioning in about 6 hours time, it saves the next boxes getting his head out of his rule book twice...

[Ian Smeeton]

I have recently been given  number of photos from the Leicester to Peterborough Line.

 

 

Oakham Junction Box which stood just beyond the start of the Oakham Goods Loops (Down & Up)

 

 

Egleton Box.

 Photo Possibly by Brian Rose (Is he still around?)

Both of these have been gone for a long time.

 

I think that I have a few more.

 

Regards

 

Ian

 

 

[Poor Old Bruce]

22 hours ago, Moxy said:

It's West Calder, the remains of the sign are on the ground in front of it. 

 

It's always a good clue if the nameboard is there somewhere. Well spotted Moxy.

[Poor Old Bruce]

Worcester Tunnel Junction Signal Box, a GWR box with external steps, from all four corners on 20 April 1997

 

 

 

 

 

and also showing the tunnel

 

The new brickwork suggests that something did not stop at the buffer stop some time.

[Wickham Green too]

8 hours ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

Worcester Tunnel Junction Signal Box, a GWR box with external steps, from all four corners on 20 April 1997

For a moment I thought the box had steps from all four corners ......... DOH !

[flapland]

So did I. 

[Harlequin]

9 hours ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

Worcester Tunnel Junction Signal Box, a GWR box with external steps, from all four corners on 20 April 1997

 

 

 

 

 

and also showing the tunnel

 

The new brickwork suggests that something did not stop at the buffer stop some time.

 

Unusual nameplate - black lettering on white ground.

 

[Michael Hodgson]

11 hours ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and also showing the tunnel

 

The new brickwork suggests that something did not stop at the buffer stop some time.

 

Perhaps but more likely the box was extended at some time.

[Wickham Green too]

49 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:

Perhaps but more likely the box was extended at some time.

I think Bruce must've been right : On the front of the box the old brickwork extends slightly into the end window bay and there could be a hint of the sixth locking room window - and on the back it looks very much as if the building's always been symmetrical.

[73c]

Found this, which shows 'new '  brick work in 1980. So whatever happened it was pre that date.

 

[Poor Old Bruce]

On 23/06/2021 at 08:55, Poor Old Bruce said:

Worcester Tunnel Junction Signal Box, a GWR box with external steps, from all four corners on 20 April 1997

 

15 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

For a moment I thought the box had steps from all four corners ......... DOH !

 

Was that before you noticed the punctuation? 

[Poor Old Bruce]

Worcester Shrub Hill Station, GWR, 20 April 1997

 

[beast66606]

45 minutes ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

 

 

Your photos are fantastic, many thanks for sharing them with us.

[4069]

20 hours ago, Harlequin said:

 

Unusual nameplate - black lettering on white ground.

 

The nameplate is standard GWR cast-iron, but has been painted black on white in mimicry of BR 1970s sheet metal nameplates. By contrast, Worcester SH station, also seen above, has a stamped sheet metal nameplate of WR design, which shows grey/white letters on a black ground.

[Poor Old Bruce]

Willesden Carr Shed Sth, an LMS box to my eyes, 16 May 1997

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Poor Old Bruce]

Darton Station Box, on the L&Y line between Barnsley and Wakefield, 12 May 1983

 

and Woolley Coal Siding, and bit further north on the same line and on the same day

 

[Poor Old Bruce]

On 24/06/2021 at 11:16, beast66606 said:

 

Your photos are fantastic, many thanks for sharing them with us.

 

Thanks for the compliment @beast66606(and all those who 'agree'). They might as well be shared on here as they may not get anywhere else before I turn my toes up and who knows what will happen then. I hope my photos will go as a whole collection rather than piecemeal scattering to the four corners of the world but if it was left till then I would not be able to bask in the glory of all the 'likes' that I have accumulated on here. So thanks to all of you who have pressed the 'Like' button, it makes it worth while. I've already posted over 1000 photos on this thread but there's still quite a few more to go at and then lots of slides to scan and negatives that have never even been printed (could be anything on them!).

[Oldddudders]

In a loco-centric hobby, some of us realise that the signalbox alone is what makes the entire system safe and thus feasible. As their numbers drop like a stone, your photos are a great reminder of how it used to be. 

[Wickham Green too]

Another miscellaneous batch of safe operation facilitators : - 

 

Sutton : Southern Railway : 22/12/82

 

Perth : British Railways : 28/8/88

 

Dover Marine a.k.a. Dover Western Docks ; S.E.C.R. ; 8/9/88

 

Banteer : Killarney Junction Railway ; 14/5/89

 

Bangor : Belfast & County Down Ry. ; 15/5/89

 

Saintfield : Belfast & County Down Ry. ; 16/5/89

 

 

Orpington : British Railways : 20/1/90

 

............ yes, I've submitted Orpington before - but this is a better phot ........... Bangor & Sutton are included to confuse our illustrious index compiler !

Edited May 9, 2022 by Wickham Green too
Photos reinstated

[Oldddudders]

Orpington is BR(S), having a miniature panel. Commissioned 4.3.1962. 

 

EDIT : Oh, and on the block shelf at Sutton was a tin marked 'Tea Fund', so I put a few coins in, circa 1970. The tin was then reversed, and it said 'Sutton Signalmen's Regrading Fund'!

Edited June 26, 2021 by Oldddudders