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Former NBR High Street Goods signal box. Opened in 1904 and closed in 1967. Survived until the early 2000s despite the yard closing in 1982.
Surviving GSWR built Bell St goods bonded warehouse of College St goods in background. Apparently the premises were used by Scotch whisky blenders. Building now converted to flats.
Late Feb 1985
Annan Signalbox showing the trailing connection off the down main into the sidings. A GSW Signalbox dating from 1876 with a Stevens/Cal recon 20 lever frame in 1973. Note the Woodpigeon has got in on the Act!
When I was recently in Kerzers, near Bern, Switzerland, I saw this antique signal box, which was left standing for museum reasons.
Just had a couple of hours down at the railway, was nice to relax a bit. With the Elf Express running into the evening I thought id get an evening shot of the signalbox while waiting for the express to pass through
This is a location that has been on my list of places to visit for such a long time. It is a time capsule with a manned level crossing, a signal box, lots of delicious lower quadrant semaphores, lots of track work and dolly signals not to mention the beautiful station.
Pantyffynnon is on the Swansea to Shrewsbury line and is a gem.
In days gone by it was the junction for the line to Betws, Gwauncaegurwen and Abernant collieries which can be seen leaving the main line to the left.
153320 is dropping off the token before heading to Swansea with the 1009 from Shrewsbury.
Pantyffynnon is a bit restricted with camera angles, the primary shot tends to chose itself taken from the end of the platform. Still a great view though.
A DMU arrives at Hebden Bridge with a service to Manchester on 19/4/1987.The box was closed in 2018 but there is a plan to restore it as a community asset
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31406 passes through the station with the 9.07 Leeds-Carlisle on 7/6/1983
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Not a bad view considering it was from within the carriage and through glass :-)
Delightful looking station on the BlueBell Railway Line from Sheffield Park to East Grinstead ..
Abergavenny Signlabox dates from 1937 with a 52 lever GW frame. Was Abergavenny Junction unil the line finally closed to Freight traffic to Brecon in August 1971. The passenger service to Merthyr was withdrawn in January 1958. Still some infastructure in place and Semaphores.
English Electric Type 4 No. 40181 passes New Mills South Junction with the final working of the 1984 summer timetable 08:15 SO Manchester Piccadilly - Skegness on 15th September 1984. This was also the final year of Class 40 operation as emphasised by the headboard proclaiming The End.
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a view of the fine LNWR signal box at abergele and pensarn as 46233 duchess of sutherland approaches
Hebden Bridge Signalbox prior to closure on the 19th October 2018.Control passed over to the York Rail operations Center. A Lancashire and Yorkshire built box in 1891 with a 38 lever frame. Also included in the closures was Milner Royd ,Halifax and Bradford Mill Lane. These will or may have been demolished but Hebden Bridge is Grade 2 listed.
A4 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley passes the box with The Salopian tour on 16/5/1981.The station was closed in the 1960s and the box was obviously out of use when this was taken but I cannot find any info on the actual closure or demolition dates online.Houses were built nearby so when passenger traffic was re-instated on the line a new station was opened a bit closer to Blackburn
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New Cumnock Signalbox is a GSW type first built in 1909 and refurbished in 2000. fitted with an OCS panel.
Here's a study of the signalman of the Sheffield Park signal box taking time to catch up on a little light reading. Southern Railway Q Class 30541 can just be made out through the window. It would take us on a return trip to East Grinstead.
Butterley GF signal box at the Midland Railway Centre is seen here on the 25th January 2009. The former Ais Gill signal box on the Settle and Carlisle, it was built in 1900 and is a Midland Railway type 2b structure and contains the original 16 lever Midland Railway tumbler frame. The box was moved from Ais Gill in the autumn of 1982 and rebuilt on the site of the former Butterley box, being brought back into use for the weekend of 8/9th September 1984.
LMS Class 5 4-6-0 No. 5000 and BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T No. 80079 depart from Chester with the "Black Countryman" for Manchester Victoria on 19th April 1980.
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43080 leads 1F29 16.18 Newcastle - Edinburgh under the signalbox at Hexham, one of only two surviving NER gantry boxes (the other is at Wylam, a few stations away on the same line). 43039 is on the rear.
As a result of weekend engineering work, GNER's London trains were not running north of Newcastle, with HSTs running between Newcastle and Edinburgh (and points north thereof) via the Tyne Valley Line (aka the "West Line"), Carlisle and Beattock; through passengers had to change at Newcastle. This made more efficient use of resources and avoided having to drag electrics between Newcastle and Carlisle.
This HST set had passed Hexham eastbound two hours previously: www.flickr.com/photos/139404814@N05/50716708636/
Scan from a 35mm Fuji Provia 100F transparency.
Originally Truro East signalbox, it was given a larger frame and renamed when Truro West was abolished in 1971. The level crossing leads to the station car park.
Appropriately named 'Derby County' with the 6H61 09.52 Small Heath to Dowlow Hindlow empties.
The driver is about to pass the single line token back to the signalman.
One of the pleasures of visiting pages of old negatives is the occasional surprise. I had been looking for another negative and on the same strip was this unprinted Peak. I assumed it was unsharp but no, even the number was readable. Probably at the time it was considered just another Peak photographed in poor light.
I have no notes of course but 46015 was a Laira based locomotive at, it is making decent progress with a train of MkI coaches, it was heading towards Derby in the early afternoon.
The area around the signal box is much more tidy than in my previous pictures, the box had not been in use for train control for some time but it had been retained by the S&T department as a store. looking under the bridge over the train we can just make out the canopy over the platform buildings.
46015 was built at Derby works, it went new to Derby Depot 01/02/1962 as D152. It was withdrawn 14/12/1980 and cut at Swindon Works 19/01/1985
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great western pannier tank 7754 leaves corwen for llangollen and approaches the partially completed former weston rhyn signal box
On 13/07/96 47218 hurries 4Z16 1404 Southampton Western docks-Washwood Heath cartics passed the recently demolished Banbury South signalbox. The rush at Registration change in years gone by to get new cars on forecourts meant many extra car trains on the network.
beeston castle and tarporley signal box --a lucky shot from about 1992 with my old and secondhand pentax k 1000
The 1893-built Wellingboro (as spelt) Station signal box on 8 February 1975. The ex-MR 'box closed on 5 December 1987.
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The 12.36 4M70 Chesterton Redland Siding to Mountsorrel empties burst out of the shadows with the loco working hard uphill.
The bobby rings the bells in the fine 'box.
A DMU passes the box with a service from Blackpool on 8/12/1985
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(built 1999, see tags for further known data). Op dit werk is een Creative Commons Licentie van toepassing.
Oh No ! Bentley Heath Signal Box is being ripped apart like a Christmas Cracker, with little respect for the yaers it has stood there guarding Mill Lane & The Railway.......10/02/2008
Approaching Smethwick Junction Signal Box on an utterly miserable Sunday morning is 37225 with a freight train diverted from the Lickey route which was closed for engineering work. The signal man warned us it was coming and said it was a Bescot to Severn Tunnel Junction.
Today the old closed station of Smethwick West is approached via this ramp but in 1979 the correct way was through the road level booking office. Of course the signal box has now gone, all Stourbridge trains would have come through the tunnel and started at Birmingham New Street. Today they emerge from the line to the left having stopped at the new Galton Bridge station, this is now the Jewellery Line and for the core of the route (Tyseley to Stourbridge Junction) it has a 10 minute service.
37225 was built at the English Electric Vulcan Foundry as D6925, it was delivered new to 87E Landore depot 07/02/1964. it was withdrawn 28/02/2004 and cut by C.F. Booth at Rotherham 10/06/2004.
This picture has never been printed, I took 2 frames and prefered the second with the loco passing the signal box today I would have taken this version as my favourite.
Copyright Geoff Dowling 11/02/1979: All rights reserved