Sherwood Colliery Sidings South Signal Box Track Diagram

I first visited this box on 2 July 1966. I visited 8 boxes that day, see my "boxes visited" log.

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Here’s a scan of a sketch taken from a Board of Trade inspection book of 1906. www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52328739520/in/album-...

 

A sketch of the 1970 layout is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52328563088/in/album-...

 

and the 1988 layout www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52328739465/in/album-...

 

Some dates:

25 October 1903 - Box opened (from John Gough "The Midland Railway A Chronology") . Owen has scribbled 21 September 1903.

9 March 1906 - Carriage Sidings added - points 24 converted to double slip and signal 22 added.

17 November 1968 - Sherwood Colliery Sidings North box closed - Ground Frame provided released by 3.

24 November 1968 - Mansfield North Junction box closed - Ground Frame provided released by 21.

13 September 1980 - Up Sidings all out.

12 February 1987 - Empty Sidings and Down Lie-bye out just leaving Running Line passing a Loading Pad from North GF.

24 January 1988 - Box closed - 2 Ground Frames provided, released by Sutton Junction Station box. I do not know when these were abolished.

 

My external photo of the box is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52328738260/in/album-...

 

My photo taken inside the box is here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52327359912/in/album-...

 

Other photos on flickr of the box are here:

1) 1984 www.flickr.com/photos/154596801@N04/50757937711/in/photol...

2) 1987 www.flickr.com/photos/ingythewingy/8550167736/in/photolis...

3) 1987 with 4498 'Sir Nigel Gresley' www.flickr.com/photos/154596801@N04/47985136478/in/photol...

3) 1989 (Box closed & boarded up) www.flickr.com/photos/ingythewingy/8551131645/in/photolis...

 

More of my photos can be seen:

1) 56008, 1979 www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52328739120/in/album-...

2) 56017, 1979 www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52328739250/in/album-...

3) 37169 & 37128, 1979 www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52328562718/in/album-...

4) 56022, 1979 www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52328562533/in/album-...

5) Class 56, 1980 www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52327360002/in/album-...

 

One interesting train was the trip working for the Metal Box Co. at Oddicroft Lane, Sutton-in-Ashfield. Locally, this train came from Toton (with steel material from South Wales) via Pye Bridge/Kirkby-in-Ashfield and the loco ran round its train at Sherwood Colliery Sidings South. It then proceeded back to Kirkby Summit before propelling the vans into the Metal Box factory siding. Sometimes, on the journey back to Kirkby, the trip working involved propelling from Mansfield South Junction to Berry Hill Sand Quarry sidings. When this happened a brake van was included in the formation.

The Metal Box factory at Sutton wasn't always served via this route. Initially the siding was accessed from the Great Northern Leen Valley Extension, via a 2 lever Ground Frame released from Sutton-in-Ashfield (GN) box. That line, though, closed in 1968 and access was then provided via a link running from the Midland Kirkby Sidings box, see diagram here www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52328610469/in/album-...

In 1972 the Midland line through Kirkby-in-Ashfield was diverted to eliminate the level crossings. Part of that deviation used the former GN Leen Valley Extension and so, at Kirkby Summit, the Metal Box siding was connected to that deviation, hence the need to run round at Sherwood Colliery.

In the late 1970s & early 1980s the trip working (8T59) could produce a variety of locos and some of my photos are below:

1) 1979, 20169 with brake van www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52327359642/in/album-...

2) 1981, 25282 no brake van www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52328738820/in/album-...

3) 1981, 47143 no brake van www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52327359307/in/album-...

4) 1981, 31141 with brake van www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52328315461/in/album-...

5) 1981, 45004 www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52328738455/in/album-...

6) 1981, 25312 with brake van www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52328738345/in/album-...

 

In 1983 the railway bridge which crossed the A60 Woodhouse Road near to the box was replaced. It was a well known local landmark having the advertisement/directions for Landers bread. I took quite a few photos during the bridge replacement, here are a couple:

1) Prior to removal, the Landers bread advert www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52328738130/in/album-...

2) View from trackside looking towards the Signal box. I remember asking a BR worker at the roadside if I could go up onto the track to take a photo - I'm glad I did, it was a cracking view from there www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52328738095/in/album-...

3) Track panels placed near the front of the Black Bull pub www.flickr.com/photos/192151030@N08/52331187830/in/album-...

 

An additional link about this box can be seen. It is a 6 min 22 sec YouTube video of stills "Rest Day Worked: Sherwood Colliery Signalbox" by madmax200769. It is here:

Rest day worked: Sherwood Colliery Signalbox

www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ox-f2qydfpI

 

Other flickr photos of the area can be seen here:

1) 1985, 56019 www.flickr.com/photos/geoffsimages/23236962303/in/photoli...

2) 1991, 58048 www.flickr.com/photos/154596801@N04/24687250807/in/photol...

3) 1991, 58048 www.flickr.com/photos/154596801@N04/39768914713/in/photol...

 

The Sectional Appendix page is here

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The quite accurate location of the box was 453929 (Easting) 362331 (Northing), seen here on the NLS maps maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16&lat=53....

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