Michael Hodgson Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 It doesn't have a box board, so it presumably wasn't operational. No point rodding or signal wires issuing from the base just cable ducting so it didn't control any semaphores. No chimney or stove pipe, so modern electric heating ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 (edited) Rye was my thought - but I've not got a photo to confirm ( Thought I had - but ! ). ...... anyway, another handful that've passed through my scanner recently : - Sandown : 21/06/1986 Hawkesbury Street Junction : 07/06/1986 Woking : 23/03/1986 Harrow No.2 : 8/03/1986 Betteshanger Colliery : 15/10/1985 Bury St. Edmunds Yard : 28/11/1985 .......... the anonymous ones are Sandown ( fairly obvious ) Betteshanger Colliery & Bury St. Edmunds Yard. Edited February 5, 2021 by Wickham Green too 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 43 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: Is it Rye? Yes well spotted. It had a makeover in 2019, there are photos on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/jjm2009/48521014392/in/photolist-2gVCT8E-2huzhMy-dXybXm-9AebCD cheers 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 Another shot of Bardon Hill, with 'Beefy' the Bobby saying hello.... 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted January 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2021 On Saturday the 21st of August 2018, I took the Stalybridge "Flyer" to Stockport and back. This is (was?) a Parliamentary Service with only one train a week (none since Covid though). The main reason for this journey, apart from to show support for the Denton/Reddish train reinstatement pressure groups, was to photograph the LNWR Tpye4 Signal Cabins that are still there. Having arrived at Stockport, I'll start off with "Stockport No.1". This is a LNWR standard Type 4 design fitted with a 98 "Tumbler" Lever Frame. It was originally built in 1884. The west end view of "Stockport No.1" shows the chamfered end to allow trains to come into Platform 4. This view also shows the additional (Fire) escape added as it is such a long cabin. This east end view shows that chamfer, at the far end, although the guttering carries straight on. This is a great box for taking detailed photos and notes of. Moving onto "Stockport No.2", at the North end of the Station, we also have an LNWR Type 4 Cabin, built in 1890, with a 90 Lever Tumbler frame. How many stations still have 2 Signal boxes on them? (Also, there are 2 more LNWR Type 4 54 Lever Tumbler framed boxes just west of Stockport No.1 cabin at Edgeley.) A better view of the box with a train coming into the much newer "Platform 0"! When they built this box, they (most probably) cocked up the measurements of the brickwork because the "Standard Windows" did not fit and they had to make a "special one" for this cabin. can you spot it. (Yes I know it's all PVC now but it is a 130 years old!) Leaving Stockport, for Stalybridge, this view also shows the additional (Fire) escape that has been added at some (recent?) time. Enroute, and having just departed the "Request stop" of Denton, we come across the once "Denton Jn.". This must have been a busy box once as 3 double lines joined here and were squeezed down to 1 quadruple line onward to Stockport. As you can see, it is now just "Denton". Again, an LNWR Type 4 cabin, from 1888, but with only 18 Levers(!) in a Tumble frame. I Guess the box at Denton Station had all the crossovers. This has the windows arranged as 2+3+3+3+2 which would make it a Type 4 size L box, which is capable of accommodating 55 Levers! Kev. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Turnbull Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 4 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: .......... the anonymous ones are Sandown ( fairly obvious ) Betteshanger Colliery & Bury St. Edmunds Yard. Here's another shot of Bury St Edmunds Yard on 12th June 1968 Chris Turnbull 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2021 4 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said: It doesn't have a box board, so it presumably wasn't operational. No point rodding or signal wires issuing from the base just cable ducting so it didn't control any semaphores. No chimney or stove pipe, so modern electric heating ? Circa 1980, rationalisation and singling took place on the line between Appledore and Ore, known to colleagues as the Ponderosa. Tokenless block was introduced, and I think Rye was the control point. Hence no semaphores or manual points, and that fairly modern looking troughing route across the front of the box. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 A few more from the archives Chapel-en-le-Frith, Nov 2016 Lichfield TV Jn (this one posted elsewhere on RMWeb too) c 1997 / 98. One of the few boxes still working in the wider West Midlands area Fosse Way Crossing, Lichfield 2016 Thoresby Colliery, October 2018 Andy 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted January 1, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2021 (edited) Haven't seen this one posted yet. Edited March 31, 2022 by Davexoc photo restored 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted January 1, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 1, 2021 Rye in 2007 when it had two nameboards 12 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 (edited) 52 minutes ago, Davexoc said: Haven't seen this one posted yet. By 2014 that signal had been vandalised modernised Andy Edited January 1, 2021 by SM42 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 A few more from the east. All from June 2014 Clacton Yarmouth Vaux Sleaford North West Street Jn, Boston Andy 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted January 1, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2021 (edited) Sleaford East to go with your North. And yes, that is a summer weekend service, August 1st 2009 at around 6 in the afternoon.... Edited March 31, 2022 by Davexoc Photo restored 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Davexoc Posted January 1, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1, 2021 (edited) Bit of a distant view, but Cosham when the crossing was still manual (I think) and the line sans third rail. Edited March 31, 2022 by Davexoc Photo restored 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 Some more recent views.... Cantley Brundall Reedham Swing Bridge Lowestoft 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 22 hours ago, Oldddudders said: Is it Rye? Looks like it is. Thanks to you and the others who have responded. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnw1 Posted January 2, 2021 Author Share Posted January 2, 2021 Newbury West SB - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5653612723/ Newbury Middle SB – http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/5654180656/ Quorn SB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/32282165080/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 South Fork, Croes Newydd (not Dallas), 3 Sept 1979 Cockshute Sdgs, Stoke-on-Trent, 31 Aug 1979 Two with privileged access: Shap Summit, August 1967 with 70012 on a down freight. Derby Station North, 6 Mar 1966, with 60019 BITTERN on an excursion from Manchester via Stoke. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted January 2, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 2, 2021 Two Ectere Central boxes back in 1985. The smaller one still exists. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 Following on from SM42 excellent images here is the third Sleaford box (West). It is unusual in that there is a pedestrian tunnel instead of wickets and the crossing gates are only on one side of the road. The railway only being gated off on the Sleaford East side. Mike Wiltshire 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted January 2, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 2, 2021 Eridge back in 1982. I still have my 4mm scale model of this box built 40 years ago for my first exhibition layout. Its a shame that despite surviving many years out of use amnogst bushes that the real one was eventaully demolished. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted January 2, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 2, 2021 (edited) On 25/12/2020 at 07:02, Chris Turnbull said: Here's a couple more I've found, Manchester Victoria and St Pancras in April and September 1968 respectively. Chris Turnbull In his excellent book “Danger Signals”, Stanley Hall asks if Reading (Panel Signalbox) is “the nadir of signal box design?”. Based on the picture above I’d say this one at Manchester Victoria could be a contender too. Edited January 2, 2021 by Western Aviator 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted January 2, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 2, 2021 (edited) A few boxes I photographed over the hyears, though not brilliant photos. I don't think they have appeared previously; Barmouth South Ely South Ely North Eridge has been shown before but here is one of mine: Porthmadog Jonathan Edited January 2, 2021 by corneliuslundie Add more photos 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 A couple from around Cheltenham in 1980. Two pictures of Lansdown Road. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 2, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 2, 2021 I always feel uneasy about Eridge box. I visited it once in 1973, as a guest of Doug, the SM. In 1985 I was asked to project-manage the closure from Grove Junction to Birchden Junction, and in 1987 I wrote the investment submission for resignalling and rationalisation from Hurst Green to Uckfield. I suppose in most careers there are jobs you don't enjoy doing. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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