Ladder Junction.
A class 25 hurries past Plumpton Junction signal box with a down flask train in June 1984. The wooden ladder - which is marked "B.R. Barrow" - was being used to support some form of staging during the painting of the signalbox, I guess it wouldn't be the approved way of working at height nowadays!
On the opposite side of the tracks here, the Lakeside branch had both an east and a west connection to the main line forming a triangular junction, but there was also another similar - though smaller - triangle of lines on this side of the sidings serving limestone quarries until the late 1940s. Both these "triangles" of tracks can clearly be traced on satellite view maps like Google Earth or OS Aerial view.
Viewed from the access gate it can be seen that the sleepers are still in place from one of the lines that fed into the sidings from the Plumpton Quarries.
Ladder Junction.
A class 25 hurries past Plumpton Junction signal box with a down flask train in June 1984. The wooden ladder - which is marked "B.R. Barrow" - was being used to support some form of staging during the painting of the signalbox, I guess it wouldn't be the approved way of working at height nowadays!
On the opposite side of the tracks here, the Lakeside branch had both an east and a west connection to the main line forming a triangular junction, but there was also another similar - though smaller - triangle of lines on this side of the sidings serving limestone quarries until the late 1940s. Both these "triangles" of tracks can clearly be traced on satellite view maps like Google Earth or OS Aerial view.
Viewed from the access gate it can be seen that the sleepers are still in place from one of the lines that fed into the sidings from the Plumpton Quarries.