Immingham East Junction
In the foreground is Immingham East Junction's signal's IM 5, 9 & 11.
IM 9 is the main home signal which relates to the route to the "light railway". IM5 is the lower of the two tall small siding signal arms which relates to the route to the "Grain Store", IM 11 relates to the route for the "Eastern Jetty". Not sure why IM 11 has no identity plate given that all three signals IM 17, 18 & 19 are all plated.
Immingham East Junction sent 7-5-5 to Immingham Reception Sidings at 00.15 on Wednesday 21st November 2012 and the last signaller signed off duty for one final time after 100 years.
Immingham East Junction, as the name suggests, is located to the east end of the docks complex and also controls the northern end of the light railway to Grimsby
The docks I believe were developed by the Great Central and I assume this GC box built in 1912 was state of the art upon it’s opening. It survived just 100 years.
It contained a GC slide frame as did Immingham West Junction and Immingham Reception, the latter still retains a similar frame but spares for this very obsolete system are clearly no longer available and thus Immingham East has effectively been sacrificed to keep Immingham Reception viable.
A nine day blockade is now in place that will see the layout rationalised, no routes will be lost. The existing double line from Immingham Reception will remain but the layout will reduce to a single line at this location and then all the double junctions will be reduced to single lead connections. A new “signal box” is under construction, it is a “building of modular construction”, it will be located around the corner on the light railway adjacent to where the line currently reduces to single line consequently the signaller will see only a small fraction of the trains they actually signal.
Thursday 1st November 2012.
Immingham East Junction
In the foreground is Immingham East Junction's signal's IM 5, 9 & 11.
IM 9 is the main home signal which relates to the route to the "light railway". IM5 is the lower of the two tall small siding signal arms which relates to the route to the "Grain Store", IM 11 relates to the route for the "Eastern Jetty". Not sure why IM 11 has no identity plate given that all three signals IM 17, 18 & 19 are all plated.
Immingham East Junction sent 7-5-5 to Immingham Reception Sidings at 00.15 on Wednesday 21st November 2012 and the last signaller signed off duty for one final time after 100 years.
Immingham East Junction, as the name suggests, is located to the east end of the docks complex and also controls the northern end of the light railway to Grimsby
The docks I believe were developed by the Great Central and I assume this GC box built in 1912 was state of the art upon it’s opening. It survived just 100 years.
It contained a GC slide frame as did Immingham West Junction and Immingham Reception, the latter still retains a similar frame but spares for this very obsolete system are clearly no longer available and thus Immingham East has effectively been sacrificed to keep Immingham Reception viable.
A nine day blockade is now in place that will see the layout rationalised, no routes will be lost. The existing double line from Immingham Reception will remain but the layout will reduce to a single line at this location and then all the double junctions will be reduced to single lead connections. A new “signal box” is under construction, it is a “building of modular construction”, it will be located around the corner on the light railway adjacent to where the line currently reduces to single line consequently the signaller will see only a small fraction of the trains they actually signal.
Thursday 1st November 2012.