Cemmes Road Wales 29th August 1975
It was a summer Friday evening & I was driving in my 1955 Ford Prefect back to Birmingham from the coast when I stopped to take a photo of Cemmes Road box. The signalman saw me & said why didn't I wait for the "York Postal" & take a photo of that so I did.
Class 24 diesel 24133 slows to allow the single line token exchange. The driver is handing back the token from Machynlleth to the signalman & will then pick up the onward token from the post by the lineside.
Cemmes Road signal box & the by then-closed station were on the Cambrian Railway, later Great Western Railway, main line from Aberystwyth to Oswestry at the bottom of the famous Talerddig bank in Central Wales. Until 1965 it was also the interchange for the Mawddwy Railway to Dinas Mawddwy.
Today there are no semaphore signals, signal boxes or signalmen as the whole line is controlled by radio signalling. And of course there is no York postal.
Cemmes Road Wales 29th August 1975
It was a summer Friday evening & I was driving in my 1955 Ford Prefect back to Birmingham from the coast when I stopped to take a photo of Cemmes Road box. The signalman saw me & said why didn't I wait for the "York Postal" & take a photo of that so I did.
Class 24 diesel 24133 slows to allow the single line token exchange. The driver is handing back the token from Machynlleth to the signalman & will then pick up the onward token from the post by the lineside.
Cemmes Road signal box & the by then-closed station were on the Cambrian Railway, later Great Western Railway, main line from Aberystwyth to Oswestry at the bottom of the famous Talerddig bank in Central Wales. Until 1965 it was also the interchange for the Mawddwy Railway to Dinas Mawddwy.
Today there are no semaphore signals, signal boxes or signalmen as the whole line is controlled by radio signalling. And of course there is no York postal.