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Gate wheels are interlocked with the signalling, and when gates are replaced by barriers they are also interlocked with the protecting signals. At Moreton-on-Lugg the signaller replaced the signal to danger immediately in front of the approaching train, and then raised the barriers. The missing element was any form of approach locking which would have prevented the barriers being raised with a train closely approaching. It wasn't WR practice to provide this at the time the crossing was converted to barriers in 1975, and it was never included in any subsequent upgrading works.
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I was recently given the box set of the BBC's first (Ian Carmichael) version of the Lord Peter Wimsey stories. In 'Murder Must Advertise', made in 1973, one of the characters meets his end by being pushed in front of a train at South Kensington. The station is a thinly disguised Horsted Keynes. The train, which is on screen for less than two seconds, is an extraordinarily convincing substitute for Metropolitan 1913 stock, which would be absolutely right given the story is set in around 1928: It's actually the Bluebell's LBSCR Directors' saloon, but doesn't it make a splendid Underground train! Stuart J
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Another mystery wagon
4069 replied to Compound2632's topic in GWR Rolling Stock: model and prototype
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Very nice, but Duchess of Atholl can't have been at Shrewsbury in 1935- it wasn't built until 1938!
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I'm pretty sure the signal in 15 is GW/WR- the finial has been cropped off the photo, but all the other elements of the signal are standard products of Reading works.
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Handrails and the associated knobs are a very noticeable improvement in the last 20 years on both Hornby and Bachmann. The others have not all followed- the Rapido Stirling single is very much spoiled by overscale handrail fittings, in my view.
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Semaphore Signals - 4mm Scale (Mainly)
4069 replied to Steve Hewitt's topic in Permanent Way, Signalling & Infrastructure
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It looks as though the gantry originally spanned three or four tracks, but by the time of the photograph the additional line on the up side had been taken out- see here The post on the left could have been for a signal applying to that line. Although the SRS diagram is dated 1945, the interlocking changed quite soon afterwards as a result of the accident described here (sorry about the poor quality of the report printing - a wartime economy measure). To try and make sure that if a train left the terminus against a signal at danger, it would be routed onto the up line rather than into head-on collision with an arriving train, the Southern rearranged the way the pointwork in the station throat was controlled. The technique became known as "Caterham locking", and is still sometimes referred to as such today- see here (paragraph 11) for how it didn't quite work as planned at Bognor Regis in 2008.
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Oxford University Railway Society, actually- but presumably you all knew that.
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Duttons Type 1 signal box
4069 replied to Ben Alder's topic in Permanent Way, Signalling & Infrastructure
In print, "Samuel Telford Dutton" by Edward Dorricott, pub. Signalling Record Society, page 96. -
That line isn't owned by London Transport/London Underground, it's a part of the main line system which LT trains run over. Those platforms are also used by Euston - Watford services, which is why the platforms remain high. There are 'compromise height' platforms on Underground lines which are used by both Tube and Surface stock, such as Rayners Lane - Uxbridge (Metropolitan and Piccadilly).
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Layover / Lay-by sidings on single track GWR lines?
4069 replied to Keith Addenbrooke's topic in UK Prototype Questions
I'll stick my neck out and say no, such a thing would not be prototypical. Intermediate sidings on single lines existed, but they were there to serve sources of traffic: factories, wharves, military camps and depots. Refuge facilities would always be, or be associated with, a passing loop, for the signalling and operating reasons that others have mentioned. There were, on the GWR, some crossing loops not at stations (Leigh Bridge and Kentford on the Minehead branch, for instance), but those facilities were provided to enable extra passenger traffic, rather than freight. But hey, rule 1 applies. -
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Another Zenith EM user here. 1/60 at f1.8, nine o'clock on a wet January morning in 1982. It shouldn't have worked, but... We thought it would be the last time we would see a Deltic on the main line. Hard to believe it is getting on for forty years ago!
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Question about FPL lever locking
4069 replied to Titanius Anglesmith's topic in Permanent Way, Signalling & Infrastructure
Some helpful replies here, but let's clear one thing up: when it says on a (usually Southern) box diagram that FPLs stand "out", it means that the FPL is unlocked (ie out) when its lever is normal (ie standing) in the frame. The alternative is that the FPL stands normally "in", ie it is locked when the lever is normal. So "stands out when locked" is not a phrase a signal engineer would recognise. -
Station colours after nationalisation
4069 replied to darren chpamn's topic in GWR Rolling Stock: model and prototype
Since the stone shades were made by (basically) mixing white lead with iron oxide, a pinkish tinge is surely fundamental? -
Station colours after nationalisation
4069 replied to darren chpamn's topic in GWR Rolling Stock: model and prototype
That prompted me to look up Roye's memoirs ("In Search of a Dream"), and in 1958 he records a visit to south Devon, and finding Yelverton station "still in Great Western colouring that I thought I should never see again". He goes on "Although there were stations in Devon still in the 'light and dark stone' of the GWR, this tended usually to be somewhat faded and I was anxious to get a colour photograph of a really fresh, 'live' example. To my joy, I found it on a tiny single building at Marytavy". The picture he took then was subsequently used as a colour reference for Pendon, which has models of Yelverton and Ivybridge station buildings. Stuart J -
Didcot, May 2010. Just a favourite picture- no special reason, but the combination of blue sky, a clean locomotive and a tidy shed just gels.
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Older Inspirational Layouts
4069 replied to New Haven Neil's topic in Modelling musings & miscellany
Inspiration comes in many ways- here's a press cutting unearthed during a lockdown clearout session, from the Daily Telegraph of 23 April 1973. Easter, Central Hall, one of the first trips I was allowed to make on my own- and the following morning my parents got proof that I was really there! I am the boy bending down to look closely at bottom left, and I remember being awestruck at seeing my childhood heroes in the flesh, and in the metal/plastic. Does anyone else recognise themselves, or indeed recall gaining inspiration from this layout? Stuart J -
Denham Golf Club Halt, little changed today. https://goo.gl/maps/p3P6JA56skjva3oj9
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By remarkable good fortune, I can narrow down that time window even further. This is a detail from a PJ Garland/Roger Carpenter print dated 23 April 1962 (Easter Monday), in which the down main junction signal is clearly in undercoat, with a light coloured patch of recently disturbed ballast around its base. So it has been renewed since you were there on Saturday 7 April, just over two weeks before! On your point about a possible change in working arrangements in 1958, when the frame in North box was replaced in July 1958, the changes to the outdoor signals were small, but did include adding calling-on arms below the up starting signals reading onto the platform line. This may have been accompanied by a change in the signal box instructions/practice relating to running round trains, but I don't know for sure. Stuart J
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I'm fascinated by this. Your picture shows the north box down main homes, still upper quadrants. The Middleton press picture of the replacement looks as though the signal structure is still in undercoat, so it could well be brand new. It was certainly painted black and silver-grey later on. The weathering on the water column is identical in the two pictures, which supports the dates quoted. Up to now I had been under the impression that signal was replaced in 1958, but that's evidently not the case. When you refer to the home for the down bay, do you mean the splitting starting signal visible between the loco and the signal box? I agree I have never seen a picture of it as an LQ.
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That error was corrected in Cooke's supplement number 3 of 1977. The latest (1992) edition of Cooke section 26 has Risborough on page 26/5, and the connection from the down bay to down platform line (not relief) is shown, with a note that it was taken out of use on 7.2.1964