PinzaC55

The massive grain warehouse at Driffield, seen by me in (I think) 1995.

Driffield Signalbox 1995 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

An LNER Malton to Driffield ticket in my collection.

 

Malton To Driffield Ticket 30.10.43 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

Driffield looks a very fine station the arches seem very unusual considering the rest of the staions  on this line how come they were built like this?

The stations in East Yorkshire were built when railways were the newest thing and no expense was spared. One of the most notable examples was Rillington which only served a small village and was the junction for the Whitby branch but the station was given an overall roof similar to Filey.

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/d/driffield/

An early picture of Patrington, probably c1910.

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Patrington station April 1977.

Thank you everyone for your contributions. I am not sure, but Driffield originally had an overall roof, and I wonder if those arches were something to do with that?

 

Tonight we are having a look at Muston LC, to the north of Filey, in two photo's. The road which crosses the railway here is the main A165 road from Bridlington to Scarborough. The railway was double tracked until 1983. The photo's were taken in October, 2010.

 

Looking to Filey:

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And looking to Seamer:

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With regards,

 

Rob.

The signalbox from Muston is now at the DVLR at Murton near York.

Yes I was going to ask the same. A fascinating feature unlike anything I can recollect seeing in a photo of any other station.

 

And also apparently beautifully kept, both the painting of the building and the flower baskets. Our railways have improved a lot in recent years!

 

Paul

From some peoples point of view our railways have been destroyed since 1996 but Driffield has emerged unscathed compared to others.

A Scarborough bound DMU swings into Driffield station in 1979. The unique feature of the box was that the nameboard covered the entire width of it !

Here are my photos of Howden old station building and the signalbox in March 78. On the subject of "listing" the box it is is a nice idea but in practice utterly impractical since signalboxes by their nature are close to the railway and generally unsuited to any other use - too small to be a house, not enough space to be a cafe. The two signalboxes at Castleford have been boarded up and rotting away for 20 years for this reason.

Howden Signalbox 4.3.78 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

Many NER lineside houses also had this style of name plate, it doesn't necessarily means its off a crossing cabin(box), it could just mean there are/were some railway houses nearby.

Yes it may well have been from a cottage. From memory I think Haisthorpe crossing cottage still had its NER enamel plate and revolving board signal in the 1970s. On the M&DR , which had only one proper signalbox , Fimber Road and Wetwang Green Lane both had enamel plates on the cottages and the plates turned up in auction about 12 years ago.

Thwaite Gates is Cottingham Thwaite Street level crossing

Yes I posted my photo of it earlier in this thread. I mentioned it because several of the crossing cottages and gateboxes on this line retained their NER enamel plates painted over by British Rail in black and white paint.

Hi, PinzaC55. I have not heard of Farthing Lane crossing before. Is it, for example, Sands Lane crossing as once was, or one of the others, not that there are many others?

Feeling a bit baffled.

 

With best regards,

 

Rob.

It was a crossing near Hunmanby. Each crossing had its own name but I sold my collection of NER handbooks years ago and can't remember where this one was. IIRC when I bought it , it was painted over in BR black and white paint as at Thwaite Gates.

On the first of my two trips to Hunmanby a DMU heads for Hull. I took some photos of loco hauled excursions at Hunmanby in 1979 and need to find them and scan them. I have a feeling they are not good quality though.

Farthing Lane Nameplate par PinzaC55, on ipernity

Saltmarshe box in September 1979. Interesting features are the vintage "Stop Look Listen" sign and the stump of a previous colour light signal in front of the existing one.

Yes, it has barriers worked by a Gate Wheel, an arrangement that goes back to early '60's, I have the exact date somewhere.

I remember that as late as 1979 Cave gate box still had its NER enamel plate painted over in black and white. I guess the plate has long since been snapped up by a collector ?

Not this plate?

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The Bassa's

 

P

The gantry had 2 makers plates. This is the platform side one in 1979.

There was also a 3 doll bracket signal at Falsgrave which was actually more interesting than the big gantry since it was the last one of a patter reputedly made from reclaimed catenary supports from the NER Shildon - Newport electrified system which was abandoned in 1935. In 2003 I was a member of the Wensleydale Railway and tried, to no avail, to persuade them to get it to replace the missing one at Bedale. I believe the Stainmore Railway have it at Kirkby Stephen East now ?

In 1979 Ferriby station still had a splendid main station build. Note the "Tickets" sign !

Ferriby Signalbox 20.12.80 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

I doubt there are many (?any?) that narrow around nowadays (that one definitely isn't of course) as it is very seriously under minimum width.  If any that narrow still exist they should be barriered off to prevent them being used.

If you watch the Scarborough video linked to earlier, when the Class 40 pulls away there is a wooden fence at the end of the former Whitby branch platform (1a I think) and it is only about 8 inches from the side of the train - in other words if a door had been swinging open it would have wrecked either the fence or the door !

Is that end of the platform, for many are like that even today, aren't they, or are they?

 

With regards,

 

Rob.

 

I looked on Google Earth and it shows the end of the platform at the same width as it was in 1981. Having said that it is clear that on GE the Falsgrave signal gantry is still in position whereas if you go into Streetview it has gone - in other words they have left the satellite image as it is but updated Streetview.

There was an impressive but less well known signal gantry at Scarborough and here is Deltic 55013 The Black Watch waiting to leave in August 1981, the dying days of the Deltics. If I remember correctly 55009 was on a train from Filey that day and we passed her between Seamer and Malton. This was the only 55 I had to Scarborough  

55013 at Scarborough par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

PS also note that the platforms didn't have white edges ?

PinzaCL55

 

I didn't of course suggest that everything in the past was good and that all progress was bad. Just most of it.

I know it was just a joke. I rarely miss the chance to use a bit of Monty Python !

It's hard to believe that's real. Look at the chimneys of industry and a bridge built here using British steel, not a hi viz in sight, no portakabins full of consultants and marketing gurus.

 

I do like the photos you chaps are putting up here. A far off, distant land known as "the past".

You can imagine people sleeping in a hole in t't ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin ? 

Some shots of Hunmanby station in December 1978.

Hunmanby Station (1) 17.12.78 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

Hunmanby Station (3) 17.12.78 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

What appeared to be an old NER waiting room stood diagonally opposite the main station building across the level crossing and appeared to be used as a platelayer's hut.

 

Hunmanby Station (2) 17.12.78 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

You beat me to it ! My shot on 16.4.77

Interior view of the then new Wilmington swing bridge.

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Interesting to see a Syke's Lock & Block on the shelf. I used to have an NER Appendix with Special Instructions for Naburn swing bridge and it mentioned the use of these instruments there.

The wreck of Botanic Gardens station seen by me in April 1977.

A class 31 passes the Scarborough signal gantry in 1979.

DMU Scarborough 1979 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

Scarborough signalbox in 1979.

 

Scarborough Signalbox 9.6.79 par PinzaC55, on ipernity