Brid' Departure
The view from Bridlington South signal box as 2W23 the 17.57 from Scarborough to Hull departs platform 5 at Bridlington station spot on time at 18.41 on Tuesday 5th August 2015.
Northern Rail's 158795 leading and 158 444, both two car units, make up the four car consist.
I can spot 10 semaphore discs or arms in the shot and with mechanical points in the vicinity of the box as well, it's a little oasis of semaphore signalling.
To the left of where the current lines run where the underside of the bridge has been bricked up used to be platforms 1 to 3. Platforms 1 & 2 were for down through trains and 3 & 4 for up through trains, hard to believe but that comment applies to most of our railway Network I guess.
Having said that I doubt Brid has ever been better served. A half hourly service to Hull it seems and an hourly service to Scarborough. Not bad for a town of just 35,000 souls.
Another rest day !!! that's it now for at least the next 11 nights so I decided to make the most of it !
Well if you can call a trip to Brid making the most of it !
I set off with 'er indoors to visit Beverley, a town I've never visited previously, we spent a very pleasant couple of hours wandering round and what a nice place it is, feels very well healed and a full of character.
Having done that, en route to Brid, the box at Beverley was visited, thereafter it seemed rude not to travel via Driffield and visit the box there which was straightforward enough.
Finally Brid' box was visited, what a belter. One I had visited before when Brid Quay, Hunmanby and Filey were still extant. It reeks of former glories despite having only 65 of it's one time 126 levers still in situ.
Thereafter we visited Brid, it was shut, so we retired to Beverley (via Hornsea) for a very nice meal in pleasant surroundings before getting home at 23.00. If Carlsberg did rest days....
Brid' Departure
The view from Bridlington South signal box as 2W23 the 17.57 from Scarborough to Hull departs platform 5 at Bridlington station spot on time at 18.41 on Tuesday 5th August 2015.
Northern Rail's 158795 leading and 158 444, both two car units, make up the four car consist.
I can spot 10 semaphore discs or arms in the shot and with mechanical points in the vicinity of the box as well, it's a little oasis of semaphore signalling.
To the left of where the current lines run where the underside of the bridge has been bricked up used to be platforms 1 to 3. Platforms 1 & 2 were for down through trains and 3 & 4 for up through trains, hard to believe but that comment applies to most of our railway Network I guess.
Having said that I doubt Brid has ever been better served. A half hourly service to Hull it seems and an hourly service to Scarborough. Not bad for a town of just 35,000 souls.
Another rest day !!! that's it now for at least the next 11 nights so I decided to make the most of it !
Well if you can call a trip to Brid making the most of it !
I set off with 'er indoors to visit Beverley, a town I've never visited previously, we spent a very pleasant couple of hours wandering round and what a nice place it is, feels very well healed and a full of character.
Having done that, en route to Brid, the box at Beverley was visited, thereafter it seemed rude not to travel via Driffield and visit the box there which was straightforward enough.
Finally Brid' box was visited, what a belter. One I had visited before when Brid Quay, Hunmanby and Filey were still extant. It reeks of former glories despite having only 65 of it's one time 126 levers still in situ.
Thereafter we visited Brid, it was shut, so we retired to Beverley (via Hornsea) for a very nice meal in pleasant surroundings before getting home at 23.00. If Carlsberg did rest days....