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Pitlochry signal box located by the Down Main line north of Pitlochry railway station. Thursday 23rd August 1990
Pitlochry North signal box was a Highland Railway type design fitted with a McKenzie & Holland Limited Cam & Tappet Number 13a lever frame that opened in 1911 replacing an earlier signal box a short distance to the north. The lever frame was a gate wheel + 23 levers numbered 1-24 lever and the signal box was renamed Pitlochry upon the closure of Pitlochry South signal box circa 1919. The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows in the early 1990s and Pitlochry railway station, including the signal box, was awarded Grade A listed building status on 12th October 1994. The signal box was closed in March 2019 being replaced by signalling controlled from the Pitlochry workstation commissioned in Stanley Junction signal box on 26th March 2019
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Blea Moor signal box located alongside the Up Goods Loop. Saturday 2nd April 1983
Blea Moor signal box is a London Midland & Scottish Railway Company type 11c design fitted with a 30 lever Railway Executive Committee frame which opened on 16th December 1941 in connection with the conversion of the Down lie-by siding and No1 Up lie-by siding into down and up goods loops, replacing a 1914-built signal box located on the down side of the line 70 yards to the north. The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows in the early 2000s
The signal box carries a London Midland & Scottish Railway Company post-1935 design nameboard which was replaced by a locally made nameboard in the mid 1980s
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Carleton Crossing signal box located alongside the Down Main line by Blackpool Road level crossing in Carleton on the outskirts of Blackpool. Wednesday 1st August 1990
Carleton Crossing signal box is a London & North Western Railway Company type 5 design fitted with a 12 lever Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company Tappet frame opened by the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company on 25th June 1924, replacing a 1912-built Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company standard design signal box located diagonally across the level crossing. The level crossing gates were replaced by lifting barriers on 20th November 1977 and the signal box was fitted with uPVC windows circa 2008. The signal box closed on 11th November 2017 when the line between Preston and the two Blackpool stations were closed for resignalling, and electrification to Blackpool North, and it was demolished on 21st, 22nd and 23rd November 2017
The signal box carries a London Midland & Scottish Railway Company post-1935 design nameboard
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In this second view of Western National ECW bodied Bristol RELL6G type 2743 of Helston depot at the Mullion Cove terminus whilst operating the above short working on the service 537 Helston - The Lizard timetable we can see part of the Mullion Cove Hotel in the background. To reach this point the route made a double run from Mullion Village along a vey narrow lane, which often caused lengthy delays during the summer period and nowadays no buses venture this far. On a clear day, the views from this spot are quite spectacular, looking down onto Porth Mellin (Mullion Cove) and across Mount’s Bay towards Penzance and the Penwith Peninsular. The hotel has since been altered including a remodelling of the front and the installation of new UPVC windows replacing the wooden sash types. (Scanned from a slide)
From the following day, Sunday 18th May 1980, WNOC introduced the MAP inspired Cornish Fairways network which saw the closure of their depots in Falmouth and Helston with much of the work initially transferred to Camborne and Truro, although they would subsequently open outstations in both towns.
At first, service 537 continued as a Monday to Saturday operation with a reduced timetable, but for the winter period from 7th December 1980 it was reduced to Helston - The Lizard not via Mullion Cove (MTh) and Helston - Mullion Cove (TS). Further investigation reveals that the reduced service levels were actually introduced from 29th September 1980.
Norton-on-Tees signal box by the Up Main line alongside Station Road level crossing in Norton. Friday 7th October 1988
Norton-on-Tees signal box is a North Eastern Railway Company type C2a design that opened in 1897. A replacement 26 lever McKenzie & Holland Number 16 was installed in 1957. The British Transport Commission Order Confirmation Act 1954 allowed lifting barriers at level crossings in lieu of swinging gates. Norton-on-Tees was one of a number of signal boxes on the North Eastern Region of British Railways that had the level crossing gates replaced by lifting barriers operated by the gate wheel, the change taking place on 29th November 1965 and the signal box was refurbished including being fitted with uPVC windows in the mid-2000s
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Goonbarrow Junction signal box by the Down Main line with British Railways mixed two car diesel-mechanical multiple unit number P870 (formed of British Railways Derby works class 108 driving motor standard lavatory number W53638 (leading) and Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company Limited class 101 driving motor brake standard number W53200) of Laira Traction & Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot standing by 24 signal forming Newquay passenger train. Monday 15th August 1988
Goonbarrow Junction signal box controlling the entry to Goonbarrow china clay works at Bugle and is a Great Western Railway Company type 7d design that opened circa 1909 fitted with a 23 lever Great Western Railway Company Stud frame, replacing an earlier signal box located a few yards to the north-west. The original lever frame was moved from Wearde signal box on the Paddington Arrival to Penzance line and was replaced by a 25 lever Great Western Railway Company Vertical Tappet 3-bar frame in July 1924. The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows in the mid-2000s which were sympathetic to the original design. An entrance-exit signalling panel was commissioned in September 2025 controlling signalling between Goonbarrow Junction and Newquay
The signal box carried a Great Western Railway Company cast iron nameplate that was ordered from Reading signal works on 5th May 1909
24 signal (Down Main Inner Home) is carried on a British Railways Western Region standard two doll left hand bracket signal carried on a tubular main post along with 20 signal (Disc Down Main Inner Home To Down Sidings) with 23 signal (Disc Down Main Inner Home To Bugle Siding) below it
W53638 was built at British Railways’ Litchurch Lane works in Derby as number NE50638 in 1958 as part of Lot Number 30408 and was originally paired with NE59249, NE59384 and NE50639. As a result of diesel multiple unit vehicles being included in the TOPS numbering system in May 1983 E50638 was renumbered E53638 in May 1983
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The illuminated track diagram mounted on the block shelf in Edgeley Junction No1 signal box. Monday 13th July 1987
Edgeley Junction No1 signal box was located between the Down Goods and Down Slow lines in Stockport where the Buxton line leaves the Manchester to Crewe line and is a London & North Western Railway Company type 4 design that opened in 1884 fitted with a 90 lever London & North Western Railway Company Tumbler replacing an earlier signal box located a short distance to the north on the Up side of the line. Additional Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company style conditional tappet locking was added beneath the bar and stud locking at some time. The lever frame was reduced to 54 levers circa 1977 when lever numbers 55-90 were removed and was further reduced to 47 levers in the 1990s. The signal box was refurbished and fitted with uPVC windows in August 2004
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2nd April 2022. Great Western Railway / McKenzie & Holland signal box dating from 1884 though with modern UPVC windows.
The track diagram suspended from the ceiling in Carleton Crossing signal box. Wednesday 1st August 1990
Carleton Crossing signal box is located alongside the Down Main line by Blackpool Road level crossing in Carleton on the outskirts of Blackpool, and is a London & North Western Railway Company type 5 design fitted with a 12 lever Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company Tappet frame opened by the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company on 25th June 1924, replacing a 1912 built Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company standard design signal box located diagonally across the level crossing. The level crossing gates were replaced by lifting barriers on 20th November 1977 and the signal box was fitted with uPVC windows circa 2008. The signal box closed on 11th November 2017 when the line between Preston and the two Blackpool stations were closed for resignalling, and electrification to Blackpool North, and it was demolished on 21st, 22nd and 23rd November 2017
The diagram has a red coloured track circuit on the approach to each home signal. A red coloured track circuit indicated the track circuit controlled the block instrument needle indication, a practice that has now ceased
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Batley signal box by the Down Main line alongside Lady Anne level crossing. Sunday 23rd October 1988
Lady Anne Crossing signal box was a London & North Western Railway Company type 4 design that opened as a non block post in 1878. The signal box was upgraded to a block post in 1952 and a replacement reconditioned McKenzie & Holland Number 16 lever frame was installed in 1957. The signal box was renamed Batley and the signalling was controlled from a British Railways York individual function switch panel from 17th April 1966 allowing the closure of Dewsbury No2, Batley West and Birstall Junction signal boxes with the lever frame being reduced to 4 levers at the same time controlling the wicket gates on Lady Anne level crossing. The panel fascia plate was replaced and switches replaced with Westinghouse M5 pattern and some functions rearranged on 6th May 1990 in connection with the opening of the Dewsbury Down Loop. A new overlay has been provided at some time since. The signal box was fitted with uPVC window in the mid-2000s
The signal box carried two British Rail corporate identity printed design nameplates
Bridge 33 alongside the signal box formerly carried the Great Northern Railway Company's Batley to Adwalton Junction line
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Ash Vale Junction signal box located by the Up Branch line a short distance north of Ash Vale railway station. Monday 6th March 1989
North Camp Junction signal box was a London & South Western Railway Company non standard design fitted with a 18 lever Stevens Tappet frame that opened on 2nd June 1879 in connection with the opening of the line to Frimley Junction. The signal box was renamed Ash Vale Junction in 1925 by which time the lever frame had been extended to 19 levers. The lever frame was replaced by a set of British Railways Southern Region individual function switches all grouped together commissioned on 16th February 1985. The switches were replaced by Network Rail individual function switches commissioned on 30th November 2011 that were in two cluster of switches, one of the signals and one for the points. The windows were replaced by uPVC windows in the mid-2000s and the signal box was closed on 24th August 2013, being replaced by signalling controlled by the Woking Area Signalling Centre on 27th August 2013
The signal box carries a British Rail corporate identity printed design nameplate
Alongside the signal box is HW14 signal which is a two aspect colour light signal carried on a right hand bracket. Beneath the signal head is a white diamond which indicates to the driver that his train is occupying a track circuit that indicates his presence to the signalman
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Newhaven Harbour signal box by the Up Wharf Road line by the junction of the Seaford branch. Saturday 23rd June 1990
Newhaven Harbour South signal box was a Saxby & Farmer type 5 design fitted with a 42 lever Saxby & Farmer 1874 Patent Rocker & Gridiron frame that opened in 1886 for the London Brighton & South Coast Railway Company. The lever frame was frame number 4259 and original rocker locking was replaced by tappet locking in the early 1920s, some time after the signal box was renamed Newhaven Harbour on 10th January 1920 upon the closure of Newhaven Harbour North signal box. A British Railways Southern Region individual function switch was commissioned at some time to control emergency replacement of Seaford signal box's 9 signal for when Seaford signal box was switched out. Seaford signal box was closed on 18th January 2002 and the BR SR individual function switch was reused to control NH102 signal (a non-disengaging controlled signal). The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows in the early 2000s. An individual function switch controlling emergency replacement CCO1579 auto distant signal was scheduled to be commissioned on 25th March 2013 but the resignalling was postponed until the switch was commissioned on 3rd June 2013. The signal box was scheduled to close in August 2018 but the resignalling was postponed as it was again in March 2019 but closed on 28th November 2019, being officially closed on 2nd December 2019 when signalling passed to the Lewes workstation in the Three Bridges ROC
The signal box carries a British Rail corporate identity printed nameplate
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British Railways Brush Traction Type 4 Co-Co class 47/4 diesel-electric locomotive number 47611 of Old Oak Common Traction Maintenance Depot passes Salwick signal box on the Down Fylde line with the ten coach Saturdays only 07:25 Newcastle to Blackpool North (1M66). 11:41, Saturday 11th August 1984
(1/500, F4)
Note, 47611 was built by Brush Traction (works number 523) at Loughborough in August 1964 for British Railways as number D1761, being renumbered 47166 in October 1973. It was fitted with electric train heating equipment and renumbered 47611 on 10th May 1984. It was named Thames without ceremony at Old Oak Common Traction Maintenance Depot on 26th September 1984, the nameplates being removed in October 1989. It was fitted with long range fuel tanks and renumbered 47837 on 20th October 1989. It was withdrawn from Crewe Diesel Traction Maintenance Depot on 1st November 1991 due to fire damage and was sold for scrap to Booth Roe Metals Limited, arriving at Rotherham in March 1993 where it was cut up on 16th July 1993
Salwick signal box was located east of Salwick railway station alongside the Up Fast line, and was a Railway Signal Company Limited standard design built for the Preston & Wyre Railway which opened in 1889 fitted with a 28 lever Railway Signal Company Limited Tappet frame, replacing an earlier signal box. The lever frame was extended to 35 levers (A-E, 1-30) in 1942, lever numbers A-E were Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company Tappet and lever numbers 1-30 were Railway Signal Company Limited Tappet. The signal box was renamed Salwick No2 on 1st November 1942 in connection with the opening of a second signal box at Salwick, and was renamed Salwick again on 16th November 1975 nearly two years after the closure of Salwick No1 signal box. The lever frame was reduced to 33 levers (A-E, 1-28) in the late 1987s or early 2000s, and the signal box was fitted with uPVC windows in the early early 2000s. The signal box closed in November 2017 when the line between Preston and the two Blackpool stations were closed for resignalling, and electrification to Blackpool North, and it was demolished on 19th December 2017
Missing from the box are the patterned Railway Signal Company bargeboards as is the finial from the far end of the box.
The box carries a British Railways London Midland Region enamel maroon nameboard
ANd 47611 would return later with the additional passenger train from Blackpool North
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A rather beautiful home. Unusual for a domestic house, however: I usually associate this sort of castellated gothic with institutional buildings - asylums, court-houses etc.
Previously run as a hotel and B&B, the cost of upgrading to current fire standards etc. was too much for the owner. Nevertheless, he is determined to keep the building in good repair, and replace the inappropriate infestation of uPVC windows installed by his father...
37 604 leads Network Rail infrastructure test train 1Q14 08.20 Crewe Carriage Depot to Falkland Down Yard with 37 608 coupled to the rear. The train is being held at signals after catching up the preceding passenger service which had yet to clear the block section to Mauchline Junction.
The signal box at New Cumnock although extensively modernised with uPVC windows and exterior cladding dates from the G&SWR era being built in 1909 with a 40 lever frame. The box also houses a TEW SM48 panel to control Bank Junction and the branch to Greenburn Mine.
Walkden signal box interior.
As part of the on-going drive to wipe out the traditional signal box three more boxes were closed in North West Manchester over the weekend of July 27th / 28th 2013.
Walkden, Atherton Goods Yard & Crow Nest Junction Signal Boxes finally succumbed.
These shots taken earlier in the year on a truly grubby 26th February 2013 show Walkden box.
An L & Y box built by the Railway Signal Company containing a 24 Lever RSC tappet frame. Built in 1888, and opened when the line opened, the box externally was little changed until it was “upgraded” in 2002 by the addition of uPVC windows and cladding.
Working as a fringe box to Manchester Piccadily and absolute block to Atherton Goods Yard the box once controlled quadruple track (fast lines removed in 1965) but it’s final layout was a simple double track main line with a trailing crossover.
She's found a drill hole in one of our UPVC window frames. I guess we're leaving the window on the latch.
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Goole Bridge signal box located above the Goole to Gilberdyke railway line as it crosses the River Ouse. Saturday 3rd February 1990
Goole Swing Bridge is a North Eastern Railway non standard design which opened on 3rd July 1869 as a non block post controlling the swing bridge only. The signal box was upgraded to a block post on 21st May 1933 when it was fitted with a 5 lever reconditioned McKenzie and Holland Number 17 frame and a Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Company individual function switch panel allowing the block posts at either end of the bridge, Goole Bridge South and Goole Bridge North signal boxes to be closed. On 21st December 1973 the bridge was taken out of use after a ship collided with and severely damaged pier 3 and the adjacent spans. The line was reopened on 22nd July 1974 with a single line in operation between Boothferry Road and Saltmarshe signal boxes and Goole Bridge signal box reduced to a non block post. Normal working over the bridge resumed on 7th October 1974 with Goole Bridge signal box being restored to a block post. The river bridge was damaged by a ship again in 1976 with a single line in operation from early August 1976 between Goole and Saltmarshe signal boxes with Goole Bridge signal box reduced to a non block post. Normal working over the bridge resumed in October 1976 with Goole Bridge signal box being restored to a block post. The original 1933 illuminated diagram on the panel was replaced in the early 1970s by a British Railways Eastern Region one. The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows in the 1980s. A replacement Henry Williams Domino individual function switch panel was installed on 20th September 2004 and the 1933 signalling panel was moved to the National Railway Museum
The bridge was designed by Thomas E. Harrison M.I.C.E. of the North Eastern Railway Company. The fixed spans were constructed by Butler and Pitts of Stanningley, and the swing span was constructed by Sir W.G. Armstrong and Company. The bridge was awarded Grade II* listed building status on 15th September 1987
Can anyone confirm that the signal box was raised by 2'3" during 1973, possibly in preparation for future electrification
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Beighton Station Junction signal box by the Up Branch line alongside Rotherham Road level crossing. Wednesday 26th July 1989
Beighton Station Junction signal box was a Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Company non standard design fitted with a 29 lever Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Company Tappet frame that opened in 1890. The lever frame was soon extended to 33 levers and a blast wall was built around the locking room circa 1940. A replacement reconditioned 49 lever McKenzie & Holland 1886 Patent Number 12 frame fitted with tappet locking was installed in 1962 and the signal box was refurbished with uPVC windows and cladding the mid 2000's. The signal box closed in March 2021 and was demolished on 14th March 2021 although it was not scheduled to officially close until 22nd March 2021 when replaced by signalling controlled from the Rotherham workstation in the York Rail Operating Centre
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Hebden Bridge signal box located at the east end of the Up (Manchester bound) platform at Hebden Bridge railway station. Wednesday 19th March 2008
Hebden Bridge East signal box was located at the east end of the Up (Manchester bound) platform at Hebden Bridge station and was a Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company standard design fitted with a 36 lever Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company Tappet frame that opened in 1891 replacing a 22 lever 1885-built signal box. The signal box was renamed Hebden Bridge in October 1934 in connection with the closure of Hebden Bridge West signal box, and the lever frame was extended to 38 levers (A, 1-37) a short time after that. A British Railways Eastern Region individual function switch controlling emergency replacement of 35R signal was commissioned on 21st December 1980 when the Up Main semaphore distant signal was replaced by a four aspect colour light signal. The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows in August 2007 and was awarded Grade II listed building status on 2nd May 2013. The signal box closed on 20th October 2018 and was replaced from 23rd October 2018 by signalling controlled from the Halifax workstation in the York Rail Operating Centre
The signal box carries a replica early London Midland & Scottish Railway Company standard nameboard
Between the signal box and the Up L&Y line there was formerly a shunt neck which was a continuation/overrun of the Up Slow line
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Aldershot signal box located on the Up side of the line at the north-east end of Aldershot station. Monday 6th March 1989
Aldershot East signal box was a London & South Western Railway Company type 4 design fitted with a 24 lever Stevens Tappet frame which opened circa 1900 replacing an 1870-built signal box on the opposite side of the line. The signal box was renamed Aldershot "A" on 15th September 1957 and was further renamed Aldershot on 3rd April 1977 after the closure of Aldershot "B" signal box. A switch (number 50) was installed on 23rd August 1970 to release Ground Frame "A" which replaced Aldershot Government Sidings signal box on the same day. Ground Frame "A" was decommissioned on 17th August 2009 and the individual function switch was converted to an emergency replacement switch for ASA526 signal. The signal box was refurbished with uPVC windows circa 2004, and was officially closed on 27th August 2013 when signalling passed to Woking Area Signalling Centre
The signal box has several replacement window sashes, the original sashes having a curved framing at the head, and carries a British Rail corporate identity printed design nameplate
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The rather sad frame belonging to Walkden box, one hundred and twenty five years old with missing and spare levers prominent and a rather nasty computer box splitting the frame into two halves.
As part of the on-going drive to wipe out the traditional signal box three more boxes were closed in North West Manchester over the weekend of July 27th / 28th 2013.
Walkden, Atherton Goods Yard & Crow Nest Junction Signal Boxes finally succumbed.
These shots taken earlier in the year on a truly grubby 26th February 2013 show Walkden box.
An L & Y box built by the Railway Signal Company containing a 24 Lever RSC tappet frame. Built in 1888, and opened when the line opened, the box externally was little changed until it was “upgraded” in 2002 by the addition of uPVC windows and cladding.
Working as a fringe box to Manchester Piccadily and absolute block to Atherton Goods Yard the box once controlled quadruple track (fast lines removed in 1965) but it’s final layout was a simple double track main line with a trailing crossover.
Hebden Bridge signal box located at the east end of the Up (Manchester bound) platform at Hebden Bridge railway station. Tuesday 8th February 1983
Hebden Bridge East signal box was located at the east end of the Up (Manchester bound) platform at Hebden Bridge station and was a Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company standard design fitted with a 36 lever Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company Tappet frame that opened in 1891 replacing a 22 lever 1885-built signal box. The signal box was renamed Hebden Bridge in October 1934 in connection with the closure of Hebden Bridge West signal box, and the lever frame was extended to 38 levers (A, 1-37) a short time after that. A British Railways Eastern Region individual function switch controlling emergency replacement of 35R signal was commissioned on 21st December 1980 when the Up Main semaphore distant signal was replaced by a four aspect colour light signal. The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows in August 2007 and was awarded Grade II listed building status on 2nd May 2013. The signal box closed on 20th October 2018 and was replaced from 23rd October 2018 by signalling controlled from the Halifax workstation in the York Rail Operating Centre
The signal box carries an early London Midland & Scottish Railway Company standard nameboard, and has had some replacement fixed sash windows fitted by the door
Between the signal box and the Up L&Y line there was formerly a shunt neck which was a continuation/overrun of the Up Slow line
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Greater Anglia's Stadler 755334 passes Bury St Edmunds signal box on 23rd November 2021 with 2E74 1001 Ipswich to Cambridge.
The 1888 built signal box was renamed from Bury St Edmunds Junction in the early eighties. An impressive structure, it is comfortingly free from the UPVC windows that have been fitted to most old boxes.
A rather beautiful home. Unusual for a domestic house, however: I usually associate this sort of castellated gothic with institutional buildings - asylums, court-houses etc.
Previously run as a hotel and B&B, the cost of upgrading to current fire standards etc. was too much for the owner. Nevertheless, he is determined to keep the building in good repair, and replace the inappropriate infestation of uPVC windows installed by his father...
Appleby North signal box located between the Up Sidings line (in front of the signal box) and the Down & Up Through Siding line. Tuesday 10th July 1990
Appleby North signal box is a London Midland & Scottish Railway Company type 11c design fitted with a 20 lever Railway Executive Committee frame that opened in June 1951 replacing Appleby North Junction signal box which had been destroyed by fire earlier in the month, on 4th June. The lever frame was extended to 21 levers and then to 25 levers at some time, and the signal box was fitted with uPVC windows in 2004
The signal box carries a British Railways London Midland Region maroon enamel nameplate
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I've had this knocking around in my computer ...more than one computer in fact... in various forms ever since I started scanning negatives. Dust was the problem. I made several starts at clone-tooling the specks out, but the job was so tedious that I could only face it in small doses. Each time the project died after a few sessions. Then I discovered Kodak Photo-Flo, a "rinse aid" added to the final wash of a developed film. Basically, it breaks down surface tension so that the film does not retain water droplets. I am now using this very wonderful product for cleaning camera lenses and the glass in my scanner. I even do the windows with it. Used at a recommended dilution of 1:200 it is scarcely expensive. It occurred to me that it might be worth trying to improve dust-damaged negatives by washing them in Photo-Flo. I let this one soak overnight and then just gave it a finger-and-thumb rub. Result. Such dust specks as remained could be clone-tooled out in half an hour rather than six months.
It's a pity the quality of the photo is not better, but it makes up in atmosphere, I feel, for its technical shortcomings. It was taken at Newton Heath Shed, Manchester, on Saturday 13th January 1968. It was now fairly late in the afternoon and the light was getting bad, even by the gloomier standards then obtaining in this most gloom-pervaded of English cities at the gloomiest time of year. I suppose I must have intended that wheelbarrow as foreground counterpoise; in the event it is scarcely visible. What would those long shovel-like implements lying on the ground, with rings rather than handles, be used for? Of inconvenient form for use in firing I'd have thought.
I suppose there must have been people about. Someone must have been in charge of this locomotive, but my abiding memory of Newton Heath is of solitude. I walked in through the gate and wandered around the shed without encountering another soul. How I miss that particular winter gloom of northern towns, and their red brick, rainy slates, low cloud and soot colouration. All gone now, in the age of clean air, uPVC windows, re-roofings, distribution centres, retail parks and electrified railways; and nothing much to distinguish Manchester from ...oh I don't know ...Luton.
The village of Olveston, seven or eight miles north of Bristol, is associated with a number of my memories. As little more than a boy I sometimes used to come through here on my bicycle for a good long stare at the Severn Bridge, then under construction. I returned to Downend via Avonmouth and the centre of Bristol. Where did I find the energy? Not so very long after ...was it 1967? ...I was making a delivery to the village's general store for my first employer when the very first Concorde prototype passed directly overhead on its maiden flight from Filton.
Ten years later I was driving buses to Olveston. Here, too, there were noteworthy happenings. This duty involved leaving Bristol Bus Station at 05:42. Upon reaching Olveston the bus departed at 06:38 for Filton, being mainly patronised by BAC and Rolls-Royce workers. It returned at 07:13 from Filton to Olveston, leaving the village for the second time at 07:46 for Bristol. One morning, approaching Olveston on the journey from Filton, I noticed something odd about the trajectory of a motor-cycle approaching from the opposite direction. It seemed to be veering out towards the crown of the road ...cripes! ...on a collision course with the bus. With a tall hedge on the nearside there wasn't much I could do by way of "avoiding action". As the motor-bike got closer I could see sparks coming from underneath. I squirmed the bus up against the hedge, the motor-bike zoomed under the cab window and struck the back corner a glancing blow. The rider went sprawling across the tarmac but got up with no more than abrasions and torn clothing. He said that he had lost control when his bike's stand had dropped down into contact with the road.
On another morning when I was doing this same duty I had somehow not particularly fancied my breakfast. Throughout the duration of the two journeys to Olveston I felt progressively queasy. Back at the bus station I pondered whether or not to make an attempt on some canteen toast. But suddenly I knew I was going to be sick. I made a dash for the staff toilets and just made it, slamming and bolting the door behind me ...although hurling is a difficult thing to keep entirely to one's self. There was a hissing noise in my ears and I blacked out, coming to ...I suppose a few moments later... on my knees with my left elbow on the crapper seat. I caught a city bus home, feeling terrible. Wouldn't you know it, there was some sort of "bomb scare" in Stapleton Road and the traffic was at a standstill. I remember the bus was full of Mormon missionaries and we were eventually diverted up Thrissell Street.
This was one of four or five episodes that occurred during my thirties of "stomach upsets" involving near or actual loss of consciousness. I was careful not to mention the loss of consciousness part at work; they'd have taken me off the road, sent me to the Company doctor and I'd have spent the rest of my days sweeping up in the canteen. The scariest incident occurred on the 820 limited stop service from Gloucester. I manoeuvred down Gloucester Road in the Mk II Leyland National, in and out of the ever-present parked cars and double-parked lorries making deliveries from their tail-lifts, hardly knowing who or where I was and actually shaking my head like a dog flicking off water, in order to stay conscious. I "went sick" upon reaching the bus station.
The most embarrassing of these occurrances happened during the minibus era and culminated in a precipitate dash around to the back of the vehicle where, with both hands on the body panels and my head hanging between my shoulders I ralphed onto the asphalt of Brislington Square. I don't think I've had a "stomach upset" since.
The bus, a Bristol LH then little more than a year old, was photographed waiting to depart from Olveston (Post Office) on the journey to Filton. It was Tuesday 12th July 1977 and must have been about 6:30 in the morning. The background is remarkably unchanged. I had feared uPVC windows but, on Google Street View all the correct four-up three-across windows remain ...in fact that one above the bus's destination has had its glazing bars restored. Full marks to the owner.
The M.L. Engineering (Plymouth) Limited individual function switch panel on the block shelf in Alrewas signal box. Friday 21st December 1990
Alrewas signal box is located by the Down line alongside Croxhall Road level crossing, and is a London & North Western Railway Company type 4 design which opened in 1899 fitted with a 25 lever London & North Western Railway Company Tumbler frame, replacing an earlier signal box located on the opposite side of the line. A British Railways London Midland Region individual function switch was commissioned on 16th June 1969 controlling emergency replacement of ?R signal. The lever frame and individual function switch were replaced by a M.L. Engineering (Plymouth) Limited individual function switch signalling panel commissioned on 29th March 1982, which was in turn replaced by a National Rail Supplies individual function switch signalling panel commissioned on 15th August 2004. The signal box was damaged by fire on 23rd October 2005 but the signalling remained operable. So the signalman was accommodated in a temporary building popping into the signal box to operate the signalling panel when required while the signal box was being refurbished including the fitting of uPVC windows
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Part of illuminated track diagram suspended above the block shelf in Basford Hall Junction signal box. Monday 5th November 1990
Basford Hall Junction signal box was located by the Up Fast line between Basford Hall Bridge and Casey Bridge at the southern end of Crewe Basford Hall yards and was a London & North Western Railway Company type 4 design fitted with an 80 lever London & North Western Railway Company Tumbler frame that opened in 1897 in connection with major remodelling at Crewe. Two individual function switches were commissioned on 8th July 1961 controlling emergency replacement of BH105 signal on the Down Slow line and BH106 signal on the Down Fast line. The lever frame was reduced to 56 levers at some time. An individual function switch was commissioned on 22nd October 1989 controlling emergency replacement of 20/21 signal. A Tew Engineering Limited individual function switch console was commissioned on 28th June 2004 controlling emergency replacement of BH111 and BH113 signals on the Up Slow line and BH112 and BH114 signals on the Up Fast line. The console had been scheduled to be installed on 4th May 2004 but the resignalling was postponed. The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows and cladding circa 2011 and closed in December 2024, being replaced by signalling controlled from the Crewe South workstation in the Manchester Rail Operating Centre commissioned on 1st January 2025
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The illuminated track diagram mounted on the block shelf in Aldershot signal box. Monday 6th March 1989
Aldershot East signal box was located on the Up side of the line at the north-east end of Aldershot station, and was a London & South Western Railway Company type 4 design fitted with a 24 lever Stevens Tappet frame which opened circa 1900 replacing an 1870-built signal box on the opposite side of the line. The signal box was renamed Aldershot "A" on 15th September 1957 and was further renamed Aldershot on 3rd April 1977 after the closure of Aldershot "B" signal box. A switch (number 50) was installed on 23rd August 1970 to release Ground Frame "A" which replaced Aldershot Government Sidings signal box on the same day. Ground Frame "A" was decommissioned on 17th August 2009 and the individual function switch was converted to an emergency replacement switch for ASA526 signal. The signal box was refurbished with uPVC windows circa 2004, and was officially closed on 27th August 2013 when signalling passed to Woking Area Signalling Centre
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Hensall signal box located by the Up Goole line alongside Station Road level crossing. Wednesday 6th August 1997
Hensall Station signal box was an E.S. Yardley & Company type 1 design fitted with a 21 lever Yardley frame opened for the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company in 1875. A replacement 24 lever Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company Tappet frame was installed in early October 1937 by the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company, which was in turn replaced by British Railways in 1964 with a 30 lever reconditioned McKenzie & Holland Number 16 frame. The signal box was renamed Hensall at some time, possibly on 16th January 1967 when the adjacent Hensall Junction signal box was closed. A British Railways Eastern Region individual function switch console controlling the Drax Power Station Branch Junction area was commissioned on 19th September 1971, the lever frame being reduced to 10 levers some time after the switch console was commissioned. The signal box was refurbished with uPVC windows and the addition of an internal toilet circa 2005, was awarded Grade II listed building status on 30th April 2013 and closed on 24th May 2014. It was not officially closed until 27th May 2014 when signalling passed to Ferrybridge signal box with the level crossing being controlled by closed circuit television
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Part of the 1980-dated illuminated track diagram above the block shelf in Rochdale signal box. Saturday 17th March 1990
Rochdale North signal box was located by the Down Goods line to the east of Moss Lane underbridge, and was a Railway Signal Company standard design fitted with a 52 lever Railway Signal Company frame which was opened in 1889 by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in connection with the new and much larger relocated Rochdale railway station. The signal box was renamed Rochdale No5 circa 1896 and further renamed Rochdale Goods Yard by autumn 1912. A replacement 60 lever Railway Executive Committee frame was installed by the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company in 1943. The signal box was further renamed Rochdale on 15th May 1977 after it became the last remaining signal box in Rochdale with the closure of the Rochdale East Junction signal box. The lever frame was reduced to 30 levers in 1981 in connection with the singling of the line between Rochdale and Shaw signal boxes. The signal box was refurbished and rewindowed with uPVC windows in December 2008 and closed on at 00:40 on 28th August 2011 with signalling controlled from Rochdale West signal box being commissioned at 23:30 the following day, and the signal box was demolished the following month
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Goonbarrow Junction signal box by the Down Main line controlling the entry to Goonbarrow china clay works at Bugle. Friday 12th May 1989
Goonbarrow Junction signal box is a Great Western Railway Company type 7d design that opened circa 1909 fitted with a 23 lever Great Western Railway Company Stud frame, replacing an earlier signal box located a few yards to the north-west. The original lever frame was moved from Wearde signal box on the Paddington Arrival to Penzance line and was replaced by a 25 lever Great Western Railway Company Vertical Tappet 3-bar frame in July 1924. The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows in the mid-2000s which were sympathetic to the original design. An entrance-exit signalling panel was commissioned in September 2025 controlling signalling between Goonbarrow Junction and Newquay
The signal box carried a Great Western Railway Company cast iron nameplate that was ordered from Reading signal works on 5th May 1909
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Walkden Box looking west towards Walkden Station, Crow Nest Junction and Wigan
As part of the on-going drive to wipe out the traditional signal box three more boxes were closed in North West Manchester over the weekend of July 27th / 28th 2013.
Walkden, Atherton Goods Yard & Crow Nest Junction Signal Boxes finally succumbed.
These shots taken earlier in the year on a truly grubby 26th February 2013 show Walkden box.
An L & Y box built by the Railway Signal Company containing a 24 Lever RSC tappet frame. Built in 1888, and opened when the line opened, the box externally was little changed until it was “upgraded” in 2002 by the addition of uPVC windows and cladding.
Working as a fringe box to Manchester Piccadily and absolute block to Atherton Goods Yard the box once controlled quadruple track (fast lines removed in 1965) but it’s final layout was a simple double track main line with a trailing crossover.
The level crossing gate wheel in Roxton Siding signal box. Thursday 23rd July 1987
Immingham Siding signal box was located by Up Main line alongside a level crossing carrying a minor road leading to Roxton Farm south of Immingham and was a Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Company type 2 design that opened in 1883. The signal box was renamed Roxton Siding in 1905 and and the original lever frame was replaced by an 18 lever Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Company Tappet frame circa 1905. The signal box was refurbished with uPVC windows in the circa 2005 and closed on 24th December 2015 being replaced by signalling controlled by the North Lincolnshire No1 workstation in the York Rail Operating Centre which was commissioned on 30th December 2015
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Hebden Bridge signal box located at the east end of the Up (Manchester bound) platform at Hebden Bridge railway station. Sunday 23rd October 1988
Hebden Bridge East signal box was located at the east end of the Up (Manchester bound) platform at Hebden Bridge station and was a Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company standard design fitted with a 36 lever Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company Tappet frame that opened in 1891 replacing a 22 lever 1885-built signal box. The signal box was renamed Hebden Bridge in October 1934 in connection with the closure of Hebden Bridge West signal box, and the lever frame was extended to 38 levers (A, 1-37) a short time after that. A British Railways Eastern Region individual function switch controlling emergency replacement of 35R signal was commissioned on 21st December 1980 when the Up Main semaphore distant signal was replaced by a four aspect colour light signal. The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows in August 2007 and was awarded Grade II listed building status on 2nd May 2013. The signal box closed on 20th October 2018 and was replaced from 23rd October 2018 by signalling controlled from the Halifax workstation in the York Rail Operating Centre
The signal box carries a replica early London Midland & Scottish Railway Company standard nameboard, and has had some replacement fixed sash windows fitted at the end of the signal box
Between the signal box and the Up L&Y line there was formerly a shunt neck which was a continuation/overrun of the Up Slow line. And on the top of the steps is Sandy who accompanied signalman Alan Tranter
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Batley signal box by the Down Main line alongside Lady Anne level crossing. Sunday 23rd October 1988
Lady Anne Crossing signal box was a London & North Western Railway Company type 4 design that opened as a non block post in 1878. The signal box was upgraded to a block post in 1952 and a replacement reconditioned McKenzie & Holland Number 16 lever frame was installed in 1957. The signal box was renamed Batley and the signalling was controlled from a British Railways York individual function switch panel from 17th April 1966 allowing the closure of Dewsbury No2, Batley West and Birstall Junction signal boxes with the lever frame being reduced to 4 levers at the same time controlling the wicket gates on Lady Anne level crossing. The panel fascia plate was replaced and switches replaced with Westinghouse M5 pattern and some functions rearranged on 6th May 1990 in connection with the opening of the Dewsbury Down Loop. A new overlay has been provided at some time since. The signal box was fitted with uPVC window in the mid-2000s
The signal box carried a British Rail corporate identity printed design nameplate
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Smithy Bridge signal box located by the Up L&Y line alongside Smithy Bridge Road level crossing in Rochdale. Saturday 18th January 2014
Smithy Bridge East signal box was an E.S. Yardley & Company type 1 design fitted with a 17 lever E.S. Yardley & Company frame opened in 1874 for the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company. The current Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway standard design top was fitted in 1903 along with a replacement 24 lever Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company Tappet frame, and it was renamed Smithy Bridge in 1934 when Smithy Bridge West signal box was closed and replaced by a ground frame released from this signal box. The lever frame along with the level crossing gates were replaced by a British Railways London Midland Region individual function switch console and a level crossing control pedestal controlling lifting barriers on 14th April 1981. The signal box was reduced to a non block post controlling the adjacent level crossing only on 28th August 2011 when signalling passed to the newly commissioned Rochdale West signal box, and was closed at 00:51 on 19th January 2014. The level crossing was commissioned at 23:55 on 26th January 2014 as a MCB-OD type level crossing supervised by Rochdale West signal box, and the signal box was demolished over a few days commencing on 7th October 2014
The signal box carries London Midland & Scottish Railway Company post-1935 design nameboards
The 2x2 operating floor windows were replaced by uPVC windows in the mid-2000s, although the row of single pane windows below them along the front of the signal box have been retained
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The illuminated track diagram mounted above the block shelf in Beeston Castle & Tarporley signal box. Saturday 21st May 1988
Beeston Castle & Tarporley signal box is located alongside the Up Main line north of the former Beeston Castle & Tarporley railway station at Beeston-brook and is a London & North Western Railway Company type 5 design fitted with a 26 lever London & North Western Railway Company Tappet frame that opened in 1915 replacing an earlier signal box located a short distance to the north. The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows in the mid-2000s
The diagram has a red coloured track circuit on the approach down main home signal. A red coloured track circuit indicated the track circuit controlled the block instrument needle indication, a practice that has now ceased
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British Railways Type 2 Bo-Bo class 25/2 diesel-electric locomotive number 25187 of Longsight Diesel Traction Maintenance Depot, British Railways b Type 4 Co-Co class 47/0 diesel-electric locomotive number 47207 of Eastfield Traction Maintenance Depot, British Railways Type 2 Bo-Bo class 25/2 diesel-electric locomotive number 25199 of Longsight Diesel Traction Maintenance Depot and an unidentified British Railways Type 2 Bo-Bo Class 25 diesel-electric locomotive pass Beeston Castle & Tarporley signal box on the Up Main line running light engine towards Crewe. Saturday 23rd October 1982
Beeston Castle & Tarporley signal box is located alongside the Up Main line north of the former Beeston Castle & Tarporley railway station at Beeston-brook and is a London & North Western Railway Company type 5 design fitted with a 26 lever London & North Western Railway Company Tappet frame that opened in 1915 replacing an earlier signal box located a short distance to the north. The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows in the mid-2000s
The signal box carried a London Midland & Scottish Railway Company post-1935 design nameboard
On the far left carried on a tall tubular steel post is 25 signal (up main home). 137 yards closer to the signal box is its three aspect colour light replacement which was commissioned on 15th May 1984
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Frodsham Junction signal box located between the Down Main (in front of the signal box) and Up Liverpool lines off the north end of Weston Viaduct over the Weaver Navigation. Wednesday 5th July 1989
Frodsham Junction was a London & North Western Railway Company type 5 design built for the London and North Western & Great Western Joint Railways in 1912 fitted with a 32 lever London & North Western Railway Company Tumbler frame. The lever frame was moved from previous signal box which was located on the Up side of the line a short distance closer to Weston Viaduct. The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows and cladding at some time, and closed on 10th February 2018 to allow the lever frame to be replaced. The signal box reopened on 19th February 2018 fitted with a Tew Engineering Limited SM48 individual function switch signalling panel
The signal box carries a London Midland & Scottish Railway Company post-1935 design nameboard, and the top part of the roof finial has been removed
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