LNERGE Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 1 minute ago, uax6 said: Its the innards of a signal motor. As usual, massively engineered for a simple job, but in doing so they last for years... I have a plan for one.... Andy G The one pictrured is a baby one. The ex Cambridge BPRS machines are more brutal. I have an SGE machine that i may let go as it is the only one i have of that type. You'll faint when i tell you how much i've just spent on two Westinghouse machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted April 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 28, 2021 Just now, LNERGE said: The one pictrured is a baby one. The ex Cambridge BPRS machines are more brutal. I have an SGE machine that i may let go as it is the only one i have of that type. You'll faint when i tell you how much i've just spent on two Westinghouse machines. I can guess. I've been told that the motor worked one at Manea is up for replacement by a Colour light, which will mean that the two spare machines with the locking fitters will be spare too..... The SGE one will be fine (I hope its 10v dc?) just drop it off next time you pass! ;-} Andy G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 to be able to drop it you imply i am able to pick it up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted April 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 28, 2021 Theres no hope for me then... Andy G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 (edited) It doesn't like loud noises around June 2nd... and when i still had hair.. Edited April 28, 2021 by LNERGE 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 (edited) 11 hours ago, russ p said: Oops, whats going on with that distant? The stop arm is worked from the box from which the photo was taken, and was only a short distance away. The distant was for the next box and because of the distance was motor worked. There were other places where this could happen, indeed the man who posted the picture has such a signal in his back garden. I used to use that signal as my avatar on another site until that site had a rebuild. I got the chance to take a photo of it from the box window during an official visit to Haringay Park Junction organised by the SRS. You have to be there at the right moment and have your camera ready to take the photo when the bobby puts his signal lever back - being in the box you can see when he is about to do this. Whilst it looks like a wrong-side failure for the instant while it is happening, it isn't a problem. The signalman puts the wire-worked stop arm back (with a crash under gravity) as soon as the train has passed the signal, this causes the slotting circuitry immediately to let the distant start winding back against its motor and this happens more slowly because of back EMF. He can't accept a second train until it is back at Danger, so it is a view which a driver will never see. Another interesting feature of that box was that it had a conventional block instrument to the power box at Kings Cross! Edited April 28, 2021 by Michael Hodgson typo 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 8 hours ago, beast66606 said: Might be worth pointing out that isn't a colour light signal - it's an indicator for the state of the level crossing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 Thanks for the confirmation of Green Road Guys. Any thoughts on the possible Ulverston box please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 "Hest Bank level crossing frame", 26 Aug 1982 Two on the Fylde, L&Y and LNWR Joint Preston and Wyre Railway, 26 Aug 1982 Weeton and Salwick No.2 which looks a bit (a bit?!) neglected but, going by the moped under the stairs, was still in use. 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy_anorak59 Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 (edited) On 28/04/2021 at 18:42, LNERGE said: It doesn't like loud noises around June 2nd... Probably one for LNERGE, but the photos in this post reminded me of it... does anyone know where the signal box cabin in Patrick Brothers reclamation yard at Murrow comes from? Often wondered whenever I've seen it, but I have Wisbech in mind for some reason? This one: Of course, there's the old Murrow box just across the road there too (converted into a house). Edited July 29, 2022 by billy_anorak59 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted April 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 29, 2021 58 minutes ago, Poor Old Bruce said: Thanks for the confirmation of Green Road Guys. Any thoughts on the possible Ulverston box please? I took some pictures of Ulverston station on the same trip that I went to Green Road but none of the box. I think it's a bit remote from the station? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 24 minutes ago, billy_anorak59 said: Probably one for LNERGE, but the photos in this post reminded me of it... does anyone know where the signal box cabin in Patrick Brothers reclamation yard at Murrow comes from? Often wondered whenever I've seen it, but I have Wisbech in mind for some reason? This one: Of course, there's the old Murrow box just across the road there too (converted into a house). It’s Horsemoor. The first box I moved. 1 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy_anorak59 Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 Many thanks! That's a mystery solved. Thought you would have had something to do with it... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 I have moved Horsemoor, Stow, Raydon Wood, Stratford Southern, Soham, Upper Portland Sidings, Snettisham and Laundry Lane. I dread to even try and recall the boxes I’ve wrecked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 Besides the structures, you moved quite a few lever frames too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 4069 Posted April 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 29, 2021 (edited) On 29/04/2021 at 08:46, Poor Old Bruce said: Thanks for the confirmation of Green Road Guys. Any thoughts on the possible Ulverston box please? Here's my rather poor picture of Ulverston from the nearest bridge, taken in 1990. I'd say it confirms the identity of the box in your picture. Edited March 31, 2022 by 4069 Picture replaced 9 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LNERGE Posted April 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 29, 2021 (edited) I don't always wreck things.. Edited April 29, 2021 by LNERGE 21 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 Rufford, between Preston and Ormskirk, L&Y, 26 Aug 1982 Llandudno, LNWR, 18 Sept 1982 and Damems Junction, KWVR, a re-homed Midland box formerly at Frizzinghall, 5 Sept 1982. 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted April 30, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 30, 2021 Damems Junction (formerly at Frizzinghall)...... is that the one that Bruce MacDougal "purchased" from BR with a scrap "fire wood" chit? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 6 hours ago, iands said: Damems Junction (formerly at Frizzinghall)...... is that the one that Bruce MacDougal "purchased" from BR with a scrap "fire wood" chit? It was the way it was done back then. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Wickham Green too Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 It's May - so it must be time for a visit to Ireland .............. hopefully we can partake in the R.P.S.I's tour in person next year - but meanwhile a few cabins we passed in the past ................ and a few this side of the water for good measure : - Limerick Junction North ; Great Southern & Western Ry ; 14/5/88 Woodlawn ; Midland Great Western Ry. ; 15/5/88 Ballymena ; Belfast & Northern Counties Ry. ; 16/5/88 Thomastown ; Waterford & Kilkenny Ry. ; 17/5/88 ( Thomastown does exist - it's not a figment of the Rev.Awdry's imagination.) Waterford West ; Great Southern & Western Ry ; 17/5/88 Fenny Stratford ; L.N.W.R. ; 28/5/88 Ridgmont ; L.N.W.R. ; 28/5/88 ...................... a 'box without a 'box ! Horsebridge ; not original ; 11/6/88 Westport ; Great Northern & Western Ry. ; 5/5/93 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 3 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: Ridgmont ; L.N.W.R. ; 28/5/88 ...................... a 'box without a 'box ! Not quite - the box was the old station building which is still standing (at least it was a couple of weeks ago, though the buildings in the background and the lever frame have gone). As shown here the lever frame was out on the platform exposed the weather, but it was a proper block post with standard BR block instruments. They weren't on a block shelf as would be usual - they were on the windowsill of the former booking hall which was then used for booking trains in the train register rather than for selling tickets to passengers. There are plans for the station itself to be swept away and replaced elsewhere as part of the upgrade for the East-West route between Oxford & Cambridge. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 Millbrook & Woburn Sands 1980. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
25901 Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 The now Halifax mess room 25/04/21 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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