12-162 The level crossing and signal box at Wool
Taken 22/07/12: I was in Wool for the D’Urberville Dash 10K and took the opportunity to snap the signal box (incidentally the Station Building must be one of the ugliest on the National Network). Based on the following from the SEG web-site, this may have been a timely snap:
“Next year [2013?] the line between Parkstone and Weymouth will be re-signalled, with control then from Basingstoke ASC. Signal boxes to be closed are Poole, Hamworthy, Wareham , Wool and Dorchester South. … Wool … dates from the 1890s and appears to have original frames. … [and has] been altered over the years … the Network SouthEast extension … is far from sympathetic to the original structure."
Looks like I’ll have to try and get to Poole and Hamworthy in the near future.
12-162 The level crossing and signal box at Wool
Taken 22/07/12: I was in Wool for the D’Urberville Dash 10K and took the opportunity to snap the signal box (incidentally the Station Building must be one of the ugliest on the National Network). Based on the following from the SEG web-site, this may have been a timely snap:
“Next year [2013?] the line between Parkstone and Weymouth will be re-signalled, with control then from Basingstoke ASC. Signal boxes to be closed are Poole, Hamworthy, Wareham , Wool and Dorchester South. … Wool … dates from the 1890s and appears to have original frames. … [and has] been altered over the years … the Network SouthEast extension … is far from sympathetic to the original structure."
Looks like I’ll have to try and get to Poole and Hamworthy in the near future.