Tim V Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Here is Barnstaple Town in 1976. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 A few that are no longer with us, scanned from prints Shirley c 2006 Stechford shunt frame c 1997 (previously Stechford No 1 I believe) Coundon Road 2009 and finally Meaford Crossing c 1994 Andy 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D826 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 1 hour ago, Tim V said: Here is Barnstaple Town in 1976. How I wish I had experienced the Devon and Somerset from Taunton to Barnstaple. Calling at Dulverton and Wiveliscombe amongst others, what's not to like. Every time I'm on the link road near Swimbridge, I always think how lovely it would have been to have been behind a 93XX or even a 63xx diesel hydraulic rather than in the car. The goods shed at Victoria Road is still extant too I think. The remains of the station at Molland are rather lovely too. Best regards Matt W Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miserable Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 17 hours ago, phil_sutters said: Some from my visits to preserved lines and Island Line. Tea with lardy cakes every day from the local baker on the Frome/Radstock/Cranmore trip - when it was Frome North. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Agree there. Dulverton was the first station I explored - in around 1969/70. Track was gone, but all the platforms were there. On my second visit in '76 the island platform had gone. No signal box photos! Barnstaple Victoria Rd had the goods shed intact in '76, also a rake of pre-nationalisation vans - isolated from the rest of the system. I took several pictures of those, but no signal box there either! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Forgotten and hidden in the undergrowth at Sleights near Whitby is the signal box that used to control the level crossing before the bypass was built. Mike Wiltshire 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 The original mainline to Whitby left the Teesside to Northallerton route at Picton and ran through Potto and Stokesley, not requiring a reversal at Battersby, as it does today. Just along from the the Stokesley station site can be found the original signal box, moved to a private garden when the line closed. Mike Wiltshire 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 (edited) On 27/12/2020 at 15:00, Coach bogie said: Forgotten and hidden in the undergrowth at Sleights near Whitby is the signal box that used to control the level crossing before the bypass was built. Seems i don't have a shot of Sleights in better days but here are a handful of others in the vicinity : - Seamer East x 2 : 25/09/1983 Glaisdale : 26/09/1983 Castleton Moor : 26/09/1983 Battersby Junction : 26/09/1983 Glaisdale : 14/06/1997 Edited February 5, 2021 by Wickham Green too 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted December 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2020 My former gymnasium, 36 hours or so before closure. CHALLENGE. Can any of you guys come up with a photo of the box it replaced in 1957? I've never seen one though I was told by a former inmate (no longer with us) that it was very similar to the one at Axminster. There are plenty of pics where it would be visible if there wasn't a ruddy great loco in the way. John 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 42 minutes ago, Dunsignalling said: My former gymnasium, 36 hours or so before closure. CHALLENGE. Can any of you guys come up with a photo of the box it replaced in 1957? I've never seen one though I was told by a former inmate (no longer with us) that it was very similar to the one at Axminster. There are plenty of pics where it would be visible if there wasn't a ruddy great loco in the way. John I have quite a few books of the LSWR/SR/BR(SR) theme, but no photos that I have found so far of the pre-1957 box. cheers 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Does this count as a signal box? It has levers, that control signals. Woody Bay on the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway. 25/6/2009 cheers 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 (edited) Well, it's bigger than the current cabinet at Glaisdale ( above ) ........... and this : - Minffordd : 21/09/2012 Edited February 5, 2021 by Wickham Green too 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibber25 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Three here of Colnbrook. The railway was built for double track and had a double track level crossing but the second line was never laid and the standard timber GWR box was eventually built on the site of the 'up line'. Closed to passengers in March 1965, the box survived for occasional oil trains to Staines until eventually replaced by an open crossing with warning lights. It was latterly painted Rail blue and grey. Today Colnbrook station site comprises two sidings for unloading aviation fuel for Heathrow and the stop block for one of the sidings is roughly where the signal box stood. (CJL) 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibber25 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 The top pic was just after closure. The signal box nameplate was bought and removed, on last day (27 March 1965) by a Member of Staines Model Railway Society (now Egham & Staines), whose name I can't now remember. He moved away from the area a while afterwards (possibly to Essex). I wonder where that nameplate is now? I believe some equipment from the box may have gone to GWS Didcot and to McAlpine's at Henley. (CJL) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted December 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2020 7 hours ago, Miserable said: Tea with lardy cakes every day from the local baker on the Frome/Radstock/Cranmore trip - when it was Frome North. In my experience, from living and holidaying in Somerset, the best lardy cakes come from there. There was a bakers near St. Andrew's church in Burnham, that made them to perfection. Just the right about of fat and a lovely caramelized sugary bottom. We always had at least one while staying there and brought one home to London. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Turnbull Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 10 hours ago, dibber25 said: Three here of Colnbrook. The railway was built for double track and had a double track level crossing but the second line was never laid and the standard timber GWR box was eventually built on the site of the 'up line'. Closed to passengers in March 1965, the box survived for occasional oil trains to Staines until eventually replaced by an open crossing with warning lights. It was latterly painted Rail blue and grey. Today Colnbrook station site comprises two sidings for unloading aviation fuel for Heathrow and the stop block for one of the sidings is roughly where the signal box stood. (CJL) "Editor visits Colnbrook", January 1965 Model Railway Constructor. Inspirational stuff especially to a 13 year-old boy! Chris Turnbull Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 MAY 1984 Ipswich Station box being demolished...... East Suffolk Junction box awaiting its fate..... 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Some more from 17 August 1983 Hoo Junction New Hythe Aylesford Maidstone West Yalding 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike_Walker Posted December 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2020 A further selection, most now no longer with us. High Wycombe North High Wycombe South Cookham after it was downgraded to a GF. North Town Crossing "Signal Box" at Furze Platt, Maidenhead. In reality it was a Crossing Frame only. Oxford North Newton Abbot West Ely Dock Junction Dalston Western Junction Kidderminster Junction Hackney Downs Foxfield 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Fencote in 1976, happily restored since. Note the reversed brick colours. Dolgellau in 1975, now under the town's bypass. And Dyffryn Ardudwy in 1972. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 This are some of the smallest (boxes?) I have photographed on the Harrogate -York line. Arguably they are gate boxes controlling level crossings, but all have semaphore signals and section instruments. There was tiny one alongside Bolton station I need to scan that looked smaller. Mike Wiltshire Belmont near Harrogate Whistrop Hessay. have you spotted it yet? Open frame on the left of the platform. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike_Walker Posted December 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2020 For small 'Boxes, Amberley must be one of the smallest on a NR main line, albeit normally switched out. Reminds me of Sheffield Park! I think this line has now been resignalled. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibber25 Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Ascott-under-Wychwood in 1960s. It is still there but with a modern crossing and spoiled with awful UPVC windows. (CJL) 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibber25 Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 In 1976 I had a week's holiday in the former Lynton & barnstaple station building at Bratton Fleming. Apart from a warning not to trespass, there was nothing to prevent one from exploring further up the trackbed towards Chelfham. Some way into the woods I found this, which I'm pretty certain is Bratton Fleming signal box, moved to apparently form a hide. It was similar to the one at Woody Bay. Bratton Fleming station, now with modern extensions, has recently been bought by supporters of the L&BR. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted December 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2020 Roald Dahl's local... 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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