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British Railways Derby Works class 108 two car diesel-mechanical multiple unit 53987, 54270 of Newton Heath Traction Maintenance Depot passes Brindle Heath Junction signal box on the Up Main line forming the daily 17:34 Southport to Manchester Victoria (2J16). Saturday 9th May 1987
Brindle Heath Junction signal box was located between the between (left to right) the Up Main line and Down Connecting line and was a Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company standard design fitted with a 76 lever Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company Tappet frame that opened 28th May 1899 replacing an 1887 built Railway Signal Company standard design signal box located on the Down side of the line on the opposite side of the Fast lines flyover bridge. The lever frame was extended to 84 levers in autumn 1902 and was replaced by a 100 lever London Midland Region Standard frame in 1952, the replacement frame being reduced to 60 levers in 1979. The signal box closed on 10th May 1987 when the Connecting line to Agecroft Junction signal box was closed and the line between Windsor Bridge and Walkden signal boxes was converted from absolute block to track circuit block. The redundant box immediately became a magnet for vandals who set it on fire by the end of the month
The signal box carries a Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company nameboard, and below the 2x2 pane operating floor windows a row of single pane windows have been boarded over
The train has just passed 49 signal (up main home) while protecting the movement is 53 signal (up connecting home).
49 signal is carried on a tubular post that had replaced a two doll left hand bracket which carried 49 signal (up slow home) with Irlam signal box 33 signal (up slow distant) below it and 51 signal (up slow home to up goods signal) with Irlam signal box's Up Goods fixed distant below it.
53 signal is carried on a three-doll balanced bracket with a tubular main stem. Under 53 signal used to be Irlam signal box 33 signal (up slow distant). The two redundant dolls carried (left to right) 63 signal (up connecting home to up goods via up slow) and 64 signal (up connecting home to up goods).
Visible in the distance are 35 signal (down connecting starting) which was also Agecroft Junction signal box 35 signal (down connecting home), and 54 signal (up connecting inner distant) which is beneath Agecroft Junction signal box 52 signal (up connecting starting)
The picture is taken from an embankment which formerly carried the Fast lines which passed over the Slow lines at Brindle Heath Junction. The Main lines in the picture were formerly the Slow lines until 21st November 1965 when the Fast lines were taken out of use between Crow Nest Junction and Pendleton Broad Street signal boxes
The cooling towers in the background belong to Agecroft power station which closed in March 1993, while on the left can be seen Agecroft Colliery
40013 & 47853 at Brindle 27/08/18 - 40013 making its mainline tour debut and 47853 marking its entry into traffic with Locomotive Services, albeit only providing the ETS supply for this tour , worked the Cumbrian Mountain Whistler on the 27th, from Crewe to Carlisle and back, out via the S&C route, returning via the WCML
Brindle Heath Junction signal box located between the Up Main (to the left of the signal box) and Down Connecting (to the right of the signal box) lines. Saturday 9th May 1987
Brindle Heath Junction signal box was a Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company standard design fitted with a 76 lever Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company Tappet frame that opened 28th May 1899 replacing an 1887 built Railway Signal Company standard design signal box located on the Down side of the line on the opposite side of the Fast lines flyover bridge. The lever frame was extended to 84 levers in autumn 1902 and was replaced by a 100 lever London Midland Region Standard frame in 1952, the replacement frame being reduced to 60 levers in 1979. The signal box closed on 10th May 1987 when the Connecting line to Agecroft Junction signal box was closed and the line between Windsor Bridge and Walkden signal boxes was converted from absolute block to track circuit block. The redundant box immediately became a magnet for vandals who set it on fire by the end of the month
The signal box carries a Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company nameboard, and below the 2x2 pane operating floor windows a row of single pane windows have been boarded over
Protecting the junction are 49 signal (up main home) and 53 signal (up connecting home).
49 signal is carried on a tubular post that had replaced a two doll left hand bracket which carried 49 signal (up slow home) with Irlam signal box 33 signal (up slow distant) below it and 51 signal (up slow home to up goods signal) with Irlam signal box's Up Goods fixed distant below it.
53 signal is carried on a three-doll balanced bracket with a tubular main stem. Under 53 signal used to be Irlam signal box 33 signal (up slow distant). The two redundant dolls carried (left to right) 63 signal (up connecting home to up goods via up slow) and 64 signal (up connecting home to up goods).
Visible in the distance are 35 signal (down connecting starting) which was also Agecroft Junction signal box 35 signal (down connecting home), and 54 signal (up connecting inner distant) which is beneath Agecroft Junction signal box 52 signal (up connecting starting)
The picture is taken from an embankment which formerly carried the Fast lines which passed over the Slow lines at Brindle Heath Junction. The Main lines in the picture were formerly the Slow lines until 21st November 1965 when the Fast lines were taken out of use between Crow Nest Junction and Pendleton Broad Street signal boxes
The cooling towers in the background belong to Agecroft power station which closed in March 1993
...Fuzzy Wuzzy was Archie's chair.
When Arch was at my house yesterday, he had to know he was going to be on one huge photoshoot. Mike got me this giant bear for Valentine's Day like 2 or 3 years ago. I thought I could get a cute picture of Arch with the bear. This was his interpretation of "Sit". He stayed there for probably 15 minutes, just lounging. He is a true Bullie.
Trip to Las Descargues 8th August - 18th August - Macro Moths
I made a trip back to Robin Howard's beautiful place in the Midi-pyrenees with my wife on the second week of August.
We planned to stay over our anniversary but we were unsure of what the weather would be like, so very opted for a slightly longer stay of 10 days incase the weather wasn't too good.
We are very glad that we did as the first 4 days were quite wet and windy and with daytime temperatures not getting much higher than 18 degrees, it felt like the trip back in June al over again!
Thankfully by Saturday the temperature had recovered and we were enjoying the sunshine finally and by Monday we made use of the stunning swimming pool that we had all to ourselves (although it was quite cold and took your breathe away). Typically on the last day (Thursday) it was really warm and the pool felt a bit warmer so we made the most of it!
Of course Moths were once again on the agenda, a I was granted permission to use traps aeound thr garden, extending to the ridge with a generator if I wanted to.
The first few nights were hard going and measly pickings but of course every trap had it's surprises in, and having not been here in August before there were plenty of moths that i'd never seen before.
2 of the traps on the first couple of nights got water-logged and then I had the challenging time of dealing with lively Hornets, albeit they are quite docile once the sun has rose and some mornings I just had to wait for it to get light before I could get near the traps.
We also lost one of the bulbs in the lower garden, I woke up to find it glowing green/white and thought it was odd and then getting nearer and realising the bulb had smashed, not good as Robin didn't have a 3-pin spare. How on earth it smashed when we had no rain that night (and it had a secure rainguard on it anyway) is beyond me. I could still see the light in my vision for about 15 minutes after which was slightly worrying!
By Saturday and Sunday, nights were really warm and temperatures kept in the high teens some nights even when the sky had cleared and working the traps in the morning (sometimes 4) was pretty hard work to say the least. Potting stuff up I didn't recognise, keeping a list on a notepad, the traps were full up and some mornings each trap had about 400 moths in, and I had 4 running! The best night I had around 160 species which is pretty incredible for August apprarently.
This first post I will list the Macro Moths that I saw on my trip.
I still have a few for identification as always but so far the Macro Moth species list stands at 193 species.
Species highlighted in red are completely new to me.
All of the Macro Moth species that I took photos of can now be viewed on my flickr page HERE
Adactylotis contaminaria
Angle Shades
Barred Hook-tip
Beautiful Hook-tip
Beautiful Marbled
Beautiful Yellow Underwing
Birch Mocha
Bird's Wing
Black Arches
Black V Moth
Blair's Mocha
Blood-vein
Bordered White
Bright-line Brown-eye
Brimstone Moth
Broad-barred White
Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Brussels Lace
Buff Arches
Buff Ermine
Buff Footman
Buff-tip
Burnished Brass
Campion
Chinese Character
Clay
Clay Triple-lines
Cloaked Carpet
Cloaked Minor
Clouded Border
Clouded Buff
Clouded Silver
Common Carpet
Common Footman
Common Rustic
Common Wainscot
Common Wave
Common White Wave
Copper Underwing
Coronet
Coxcomb Prominent
Crescent Dart
Dark Spectacle
Dark Sword-grass
Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
Delicate
Dewick's Plusia
Dingy Footman
Dotted Clay
Double-striped Pug
Drymonia querna
Dumeril's Rustic
Dun-bar
Dusky Marbled Brown
Ear Moth
Early Thorn
Engrailed
Epilecta linogrisea
Essex Emerald
Eupithecia semigraphata or impurata
False Mocha
Festoon
Figure of Eighty
Flame Shoulder
Flounced Rustic
Four-spotted Footman
Foxglove Pug
Frosted Yellow
Garden Carpet
Garden Tiger
Gem
Grass Emerald
Great Dart
Green Silver-lines
Grey Dagger
Gypsy Moth
Heart & Dart
Hoary Footman
Horse Chestnut
Humming-bird Hawk-moth
Idaea deversaria
Idia calvaria
Iron Prominent
Jersey Emerald
Jersey Tiger
Knot Grass
Large Yellow Underwing
Latin
Latticed Heath
Least Yellow Underwing
Leopard Moth
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
Lesser Cream Wave
Lesser Swallow Prominent
Lesser Treble-bar
Lesser Yellow Underwing
Light Emerald
Lime Hawk-moth
Lime-speck Pug
Lobster Moth
Lunar Thorn
Lychnis
Lythria cruentaria
Maiden's Blush
Marbled Clover
Miller
Nutmeg
Nut-tree Tussock
Oak Eggar
Oak Hook-tip
Oak Processionary
Orache Moth
Orange Footman
Paidia rica
Pale Mottled Willow
Pale Oak Beauty
Pale Prominent
Pale Shoulder
Passenger
Peach Blossom
Peacock Moth
Pebble Hook-tip
Peppered Moth
Phoenix
Pigmy Footman
Pine Hawk-moth
Pine Processionary
Pine-tree Lappet
Pinion-streaked Snout
Plum Lappet
Poplar Hawk-moth
Poplar Kitten
Poplar Lappet
Portland Riband Wave
Red Twin-spot Carpet
Riband Wave
Rosy Footman
Rosy Marbled
Ruby Tiger
Rustic
Satin Wave
Scalloped Hook-tip
Scarce Bordered Straw
Scarce Footman
Scarce Merveille du Jour
Scarlet Tiger
Scopula tesselaria
Scorched Wing
Setaceous Hebrew Character
Shark
Shears
Silver-Y
Single-dotted Wave
Small Angle Shades
Small Black Arches
Small Blood-vein
Small Dusty Wave
Small Fan-foot
Small Fan-footed Wave
Small Mottled Willow
Small Purple-barred
Small Ranunculus
Small Rivulet
Small White Wave
Snout
Speckled Beauty
Spotted Sulphur
Square-spotted Clay
Straw Dot
Straw Underwing
Swallow Prominent
Synopsia sociaria
Tawny Prominent
Tawny-barred Angle
Tephronia sepiaria
Toadflax Brocade
Treble-bar
Tree-lichen Beauty
True Lover's Knot
Vestal
Vine's Rustic
Waved Umber
White Ermine
White-point
White-speck
Willow Beauty
Wood Carpet
Yellow Shell
Yellow-barred Brindle
Yellow-headed Phoenix
Yellow-tail
Pair of Black 5s 44871 + 45407 working 1z60 London Victoria-Appleby,passing Brindle (eastbound) on 09/05/2014
Criss Cross watching. Always watching. He's a different type of dog, when he was 6 wks. old he was trying to bark at me.