RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 6, 2017 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted September 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 6, 2017 A rather scruffy unidentified Class 25 running engine and Brake into the old Exchange Sidings between the South Staffs Line and GWR Birmingham, Wolverhampton & Dudley line at Wednesbury Town. The box is Wednesbury No.1, at Potters Lane Level Crossing and the bridge is the GWR line, now Midland Metro. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 6, 2017 That should have been a listed building! Before or after it started to fall down? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 6, 2017 (edited) Before or after it started to fall down? I was joking, but it just had a lot more character to it than many listed buildings and a good number of them were listed when they were in poor condition. The station itself is so featureless that the box was the one thing that you remembered. Edited September 6, 2017 by phil_sutters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 6, 2017 (edited) Bath Road Jcn 'box Slough, a mere 54 years ago - including some of the passing dmu from which I took the picture And taken in the same year (if my memory is working properly) but in this case an engine running round its train - at Lakeside Edited September 6, 2017 by The Stationmaster 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wollastonblue Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Me and the boy at Hythe Station on the RHDR. Signal box in the background: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 6, 2017 I was joking, but it just had a lot more character to it than many listed buildings and a good number of them were listed when they were in poor condition. The station itself is so featureless that the box was the one thing that you remembered. The other 'box (Clapham 'B') is, albeit in a different time frame, of equal historical performance and is almost 90 years old; fortunately seems to have survived albeit with modern windows replacing the originals. Alas Clapham 'A' was in a very poor state and it's not really surprising it started to collapse due to the ARP roof adding even more weight onto the supporting structure. It looks like what was used as a replacement support frame at that end was different from the original and latterly the sheeting from the ARP roof was removed leaving just the framework and the rather sorry looking wooden structure underneath. The question really arises then of just what it would have been restored to? Its original lever frame was replaced in 1936 by one from a different manufacturer as part of the introduction of colour light signalling, the 40 ton ARP roof was added at around the time of WWII, the support structure at one end was renewed - in what looks like a slightly different pattern - after the partial collapse of the original in 1965, and the original timber structure was in a fairly sorry state by the late 1980s (and has in any case been described as 'basically a collection of wooden sheds'). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 6, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 6, 2017 (edited) TVR 85 with a short freight in front of the signal box at Keighley 22 July 2008: Keith Edited September 6, 2017 by melmerby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted September 6, 2017 Author Share Posted September 6, 2017 Rowley Signal Box at Beamish Museum 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted September 6, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 6, 2017 Today. 48151 passing Settle box on a Bedford-Carlisle charter. The signalbox has been restored by the Friends of the Settle-Carlisle and is open fro public visits most weekends. We got in because one of our part-time staff members is a volunteer and has access. Cheers, Mick 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal.n Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 60103 glides past Rawtenstall West box on the approach to Rawtenstall on the ELR. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 6, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 6, 2017 Rowley Signal Box at Beamish Museum WP_20170624_15_06_20_Pro.jpg Where's the train? Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted September 6, 2017 Author Share Posted September 6, 2017 (edited) Where's the train? Keith Once again you do not like me posting photographs because you have criticised everyone I have posted; even though others have posted similar pictures without comment. Here is a picture of a signal box with a train. Oh dear, there isn't an engine. TOUGH! I, like others, shall not post another picture here. Edited September 7, 2017 by NorthBrit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 6, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 6, 2017 Once again you do not like me posting photographs because you have criticised everyone I have posted; even though others have posted similar pictures without comment. Here is a picture of a signal box with a train. Oh dear, there isn't an engine. TOUGH! WP_20170624_15_05_10_Pro.jpg Sorry you have taken offence but didn't you notice the emoji! Keith (every other signal box picture does have a train in sight though) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wollastonblue Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 You can guess where I do a lot of my railway photography: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 6, 2017 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 Bit of an unusual location for a TransPennine train: Kirton Lindsey / Kirton Lime Sidings signalbox. This was a Saturday extra between Sheffield and Cleethorpes, run when the normal route via Scunthorpe was closed due to the landslip at Hatfield Colliery. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted September 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 6, 2017 Shrewsbury Severn Bridge Junction. I was lucky enough to be in there on business. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted September 6, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 6, 2017 I don't think that this photo would have got a look-in for any other reason so here is its little bit of limelight! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingley hall Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 Time to sneak one more in before everyone wakes up..........Hadfield, May 1981 P.S. Nice to see the Clapham Jct pic provoke a bit of discussion 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 So, today's theme is engine sheds. A very famous Gresley A3 receives some attention at Bridgnorth MPD last year during the Pacific Power event, September 2016. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wollastonblue Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 Similar spot but different loco. I really need to get out more : 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 7, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2017 (edited) I'll add a "as it was" view, when very basic facilities were the order of the day (1970s) Keith Edited September 7, 2017 by melmerby 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 7, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 7, 2017 For a proper shed here is this one from the NYMR: Keith 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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