Fiskerton Station Ground Frame Track Diagram
I visited this box on 14 July 1967. I visited 3 boxes that day, see my "boxes visited" log.
www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/51601553262/in/album-...
This box replaced a previous one on 6 July 1902.
With the opening of Fiskerton Jn box in 1929 some changes affected Fiskerton Station box. The 1929 notice can be seen, starting here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/51856464378/in/album-...
2 December 1934 is the actual day it was demoted from Signal Box to Gate Box.
Fiskerton Station Gate Box closed on 24 October 2016. taken over by the East Midlands Control Centre (EMCC), Netherfield Workstation. The level crossing was renamed Fiskerton LC and had MCB-OD (Barriers with Obstacle Detection by radar).
It seems that, at some point between my visit on 14 July 1967 and 1972, the gate locks were changed to be controlled from the Box, using lever 4. The gate lock rodding can be seen in this 1972 photo www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/51859337323/in/album-... and shown on the track diagram here (circa 1982) www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/51858298812/in/album-...
whereas in my 1967 photo the rodding isn't there www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/51855000207/in/album-...
A track diagram from the 1960s can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/51896772033/in/album-..., courtesy of The Midland Railway Study Centre Derby. On this diagram you see "Gates Released by Annetts Keys". My onsite drawing doesn't show that text but, for clarity, I've added it onto the diagram I show in this flickr album.
Apparently lever 3 was going to be used to lock the wicket gates (electromagnetic) if the EMSR project got delayed further, due to safety risks over misuse... (the wickets were always ‘free’ though in final years staff had to padlock them for each train).
More photos of the box can be seen here:
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2765100
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/I/R/stnpages/fiskerton....
www.flickr.com/photos/24041160@N02/30810108405
Additional links about this box can be seen here
www.railscot.co.uk/locations/F/Fiskerton/
www.derby-signalling.org.uk/Newark.htm
The Sectional Appendix page is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/51750960355/in/photos...
The quite accurate location of the box was 472963 (Easting) 352003 (Northing), seen here on the NLS maps maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16&lat=53....
A more detailed 25 inch to the mile map is here maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16&lat=53....
Fiskerton Station Ground Frame Track Diagram
I visited this box on 14 July 1967. I visited 3 boxes that day, see my "boxes visited" log.
www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/51601553262/in/album-...
This box replaced a previous one on 6 July 1902.
With the opening of Fiskerton Jn box in 1929 some changes affected Fiskerton Station box. The 1929 notice can be seen, starting here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/51856464378/in/album-...
2 December 1934 is the actual day it was demoted from Signal Box to Gate Box.
Fiskerton Station Gate Box closed on 24 October 2016. taken over by the East Midlands Control Centre (EMCC), Netherfield Workstation. The level crossing was renamed Fiskerton LC and had MCB-OD (Barriers with Obstacle Detection by radar).
It seems that, at some point between my visit on 14 July 1967 and 1972, the gate locks were changed to be controlled from the Box, using lever 4. The gate lock rodding can be seen in this 1972 photo www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/51859337323/in/album-... and shown on the track diagram here (circa 1982) www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/51858298812/in/album-...
whereas in my 1967 photo the rodding isn't there www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/51855000207/in/album-...
A track diagram from the 1960s can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/51896772033/in/album-..., courtesy of The Midland Railway Study Centre Derby. On this diagram you see "Gates Released by Annetts Keys". My onsite drawing doesn't show that text but, for clarity, I've added it onto the diagram I show in this flickr album.
Apparently lever 3 was going to be used to lock the wicket gates (electromagnetic) if the EMSR project got delayed further, due to safety risks over misuse... (the wickets were always ‘free’ though in final years staff had to padlock them for each train).
More photos of the box can be seen here:
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2765100
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/I/R/stnpages/fiskerton....
www.flickr.com/photos/24041160@N02/30810108405
Additional links about this box can be seen here
www.railscot.co.uk/locations/F/Fiskerton/
www.derby-signalling.org.uk/Newark.htm
The Sectional Appendix page is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/51750960355/in/photos...
The quite accurate location of the box was 472963 (Easting) 352003 (Northing), seen here on the NLS maps maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16&lat=53....
A more detailed 25 inch to the mile map is here maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16&lat=53....