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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.
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.