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Even luckier, I started my railway career with the S&T at Selby in the 70s. Oh, how I wished I had the foresight to get a camera back then!

Also two red 'pots' on the top arm of the telegraph pole - probably 110 volt power for signalling equipment along the route.

Thanks for the explanation @doilum. I'll keep a lookout on developments, sounds a very interesting project.

Forgot to ask yesterday, any photos of the model yet?

I think that the main problem for photographers was the lack of room to take a good shot of the frontage from the narrow road leading in front of the station. At best, you could only get a 3/4 view, which probably most photographers would have dismissed as 'not worth it'. The same limitations exist today.

Indeed. That's where I first saw the photos, but purchased hi-Res copies from the 'hes' website.

A new book (released last month) by Steve Golton, priced at £19.95. Steve had a near 40 year career with British Rail and its successor companies, which included a 4 year spell on the signalling maintenance team at Selby, as well as other work there on various schemes over the years. There are a number of excellent books on Selby's railway history, but Steve has perhaps dug into places not visited by these existing publications, such as the infrastructure changes that have taken place over the years. Steve's main interest is the things that happened to make the railway work and the developments and improvements that occurred over time. He has amassed a collection of photos and diagrams, b&w and colour, to illustrate these aspects, the vast majority of which will not have been seen before. The book is available from ALD Design & Print, 279 Sharrow Vale Road, Sheffield, S11 8ZF. Their website is https://aldprint.co.uk or https://aldprint.co.uk/shop/ols/products/selbys-railways-explored which should take you direct to the book. All proceeds from the book will go to the Railway Children's charity.

Hi John, A further update, I've managed to get two web addresses. https://aldprint.co.uk for the printer, but https://aldprint.co.uk/shop/ols/products/selbys-railways-explored should take you straight to the book.

Hi John, I haven't a web address for the publishers (I'll see if I can get one) but their postal address is; ALD Design & Print, 279 Sharrow Vale Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S11 8ZF. I believe a few 'sale' copies were left with Selby Library, also a few copies were available at Heat-It in Riccall (Main Street, opposite the Greyhound pub).

For the last year or so I've been assisting a friend with research for a book on Selby railways that got published last month - Selby's Railways Explored The Changing Scene 1834 - 2022 - (ISBN 9 781901 58708, Steve Golton, Published by ALD Design & Print). Photos of what you are looking for are extremely rare, indeed almost non-existent. Although Steve did get copies of the plans from Network Rail, we couldn't find any close-up (from the road) photos of the station frontage. Some photo evidence is on the Francis Frith website (taken from the top of Selby Abbey) and gave some detail, but the best photo evidence was found at the Historic Environment Scotland website (archives@hes.scot). These are aerial photos, but of very good quality and high definition. The best photo for your needs will be EAW015736_The_Town_and_River_Ouse_Selby_1948 which shows the detail of the station frontage in a fair amount of detail which you can compare with the drawings. Hope this helps. By the way, I make no apologies for blatantly plugging the book as all proceeds go to the Railway Children's charity.

That's the version I know from childhood.

Second photo, far left. What looks like 4 'static caravans' in the siding. Does anyone know if they are just parked there (on a redundant siding) or are they on 'well wagons'? If they are on wagons ready for transportation, they would be a seriously 'wide to gauge' load.

Plus some interesting 'weathering' on the 122s cab roof.

Have you tried contacting the Midland Railway Society (www.midlandrailway.org.uk), they may be able to help.

Ah, sorry. My bad. ☹️

Hi Chris, looking on the SRS website, the top arm is Canterbury 'B' Down Home No.12. The 'distant' arm will be for Canterbury West but looking at the diagram for 'CW' the 'distant' is not numbered, so I deduce it is a 'fixed distant'. BTW, nothing shown on the diagrams to indicate what 'items' in the 4' might be for.

Hi @Rail-Online, are we still seeing the whole photo? Sorry if I appear a bit "greedy" in this respect but does the photo show any more of the Up line on the left? Just wondered if the items in question are repeated on the Up line or are they just in the 4' of the Down line?

Those lines were made OOU in March 1969 and lifted later in the year/early 1970. The was also another line that crossed the road that used to serve Porter's Wood Yard.

Looks rather isolated and lonely now that most buildings of the BOCM Works have been demolished.

Mmmm...... Can't comment on the 'sighting' questions you raise Jim (without seeing the SSF), or why the original gantry needed to be replaced (I suspect it became unsafe in some way), but on another completely different issue, it would be interesting to see how RAMS (Reliability, Accessibility, Maintainability and Safety) is complied with when maintenance is required on the signals - I can't see any access from the gantry to the signal suspended from the gantry, so I assume access will have to be from a MEWP - which would require (in my opinion) a possession of the two lines in question. From an 'access' safety aspect probably a good point, but to require a possession of two lines to 'maintain' the signals seems to be a backward step in terms of 'operations'.

Would be interesting to see what details the Signal Sighting Forms contain (not that we ever will see them). The Signal Sighting Committee would have discussed all the issues/planned changes (hopefully), and agreement reached, before the committee Chairman signed the forms 'off'. Unless things have changed very recently, the TOCs/FOCs would have (should have?) had representations on the signal sighting committee (it is a requirement of the 'Standards').

Thanks @micknich2003 . Thinking about it, it does make sense if both signals read over the same route, an economy or sorts, only requiring one lever for both functions.

Hi @31A, many thanks, I'm sure Mick will be able to confirm about the signal arms. Yes, the large YORK sign (cut-out flower bed arrangement) is adajcent to where the former Up Holgate Excursion Platform used to be - I'm sure there may well have been other examples, Harrogate being one as you mention.

Re C15519, I'd go with Longhirst. 43105 is just passing D&I 77 (the larger 'walk-in' grey cabinet) - also referred to as Longhirst TAC (apologies for the Telecoms shout-out, but we don't often get a mention!).

A very interesting photo Mick, thanks for posting. On closer examination, it seems that the left-most signal on top of the gantry has both the 'main' arm and 'shunt/calling-on' arm both off together. Was this normal practice? My understanding is that one or the other would be off, but not both at the same time. Also, the 'Automobile Purchases Ltd' painted advertisement on the end of the building can't be missed, nor can the 'Hull' sign - do you know if the 'Hull' sign was provided by the LNER (can't quite see which side of the boundary it is) or was it a local council provided sign - either way it seems rather large!