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British Railways Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company Limited class 101 two car diesel-mechanical multiple unit E54369, E51230 of Neville Hill Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot passes Hebden Bridge signal box on the Up L&Y line slowing to stop at Hebden Bridge railway station forming the 15:45 Leeds to Manchester Victoria (2M08). Sunday 22nd July 1984
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 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
15 lever in Hebden Bridge signal box operated both arms on the two arm London Midland & Scottish Railway Company 1941 type standard dwarf signal in the six-foot. The discs have a white diamond on them which indicates to the driver that his train is occupying a track circuit that indicates his presence to the signalman. The signals were replaced by HB15 signal, a three aspect colour light signal with a position light signal underneath signal located at the Leeds end of the Manchester bound platform (possibly in the 1990s), to allow trains from the Leeds and Bradford direction to terminate and depart back as passenger trains without having to shunt to the down platform
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Monks Siding signal box located by the Down Goods line alongside Beaufort Street level crossing in Warrington. Wednesday 25th May 1988
Monks Siding signal box is a London & North Western Railway Company type 3 design which opened in 1875 fitted with a 20 lever London & North Western Railway Company Tumbler frame. The original signal box door and steps were originally located at the end of the 4' 6" operating floor window sashes. The doorway was moved by 1972 to just in front of the back wall with the steps facing the running line. The steps were then moved to Liverpool end of the signal box to allow the level crossing to be widened, possibly in conjunction with the level crossing gates being replaced by full width lifting barriers on 20th December 1976. The signal box was rewindowed with uPVC windows sometime by June 2003. The signal box diagram was replaced in the shape of a Tew Engineering Limited SM48 signalling panel on 9th July 2012 with an emergency replacement for MS2R signal being included in it in connection with resignalling between Monks Siding and Arpley Junction signal boxes
The signal box carries a London Midland & Scottish Railway Company post-1935 design nameboard
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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
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Beeston Castle & Tarporley signal box alongside the Up Main line north of the former Beeston Castle & Tarporley railway station at Beeston-brook. Saturday 21st May 1988
Beeston Castle & Tarporley signal box 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
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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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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.
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Kirkby Stephen signal box located by the Up Siding south of Kirkby Stephen Railway station. Tuesday 29th March 1988
Kirkby Stephen signal box is a British Railways London Midland Region Type 15 design fitted with a 20 lever London Midland Region Standard frame which opened on 27th October 1974 replacing an 1894-built Midland Railway Type 2a design signal box located a few yards to the south. The structure was built using parts moved from Kendal signal box which closed on 19th April 1973, and the frame is possibly part of the 30 lever frame that was installed at Kendal. The signal box was rewindowed with uPVC windows in 1996
The signal box carries a pair of British Railways corporate identity printed design nameplates at either end and on the front is a British Railways London Midland Region maroon Kirkby Stephen West enamel name plate
The yellow painted Midland Railway mile post in front of the signal box shows that the location is 266½ miles from the buffer stops at London St. Pancras station
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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
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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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Silecroft signal box located by the Down Main line alongside Main Street level crossing. Wednesday 28th April 2010
Silecroft signal box is a Furness Railway Company type 4 design fitted with a 35 lever Railway Signal Company Limited Tappet frame opened in 1923 by the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company replacing an earlier signal box located diagonally across the level crossing. On 14th November 1982 the level crossing gates were replaced by lifting barriers and the lever frame was reduced to 22 levers with lever numbers 23 to 35 being removed. The original 2x2 pane operating floor windows were replaced by uPVC windows in the latter half of the 2010s when the local replacement nameboard was fitted
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Caverswall signal box located by the Up Main line alongside Caverswall Lane level crossing between Meir and Blythe Bridge. Sunday 25th September 1988
Caverswall signal box is a London Midland & Scottish Railway Company type 11c design fitted with a 35 lever Railway Executive Committee frame which opened on 27th September 1942, replacing an earlier signal box on the opposite side of the line. The signal box was closed between 11th and 18th February 1989 for the lever frame to be relocked and colour light resignalling, during which time the signalman was housed in a temporary block post in a caravan. When the signal box reopened an individual function switch was commissioned controlling emergency replacement of 17R signal, and the caravan was moved to Stallington for use as a temporary block post there. On 12th March 1989 an individual function switch was commissioned controlling emergency replacement of 29R signal. The signal box was refurbished with uPVC windows in the early 2010s
The signal box carries a London Midland & Scottish Railway Company post-1935 design nameboard
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There are two very similar species of Green Orb-Weaver Spider in the UK that can only be identified with a microscope - (Araniella cucurbitina or opisthographa). The Green Orb-Weaver Spider is very small with a body length of only 4-6mm. Green Orb-Weaver Spiders are a common native species that can be found throughout the UK and northern Europe. Despite their bright and almost fluorescent green colour theses tiny spiders can hide well camouflaged amongst bushes, plants and hedgerows. They usually go completely unnoticed until they stray from their usual habitat onto white uPVC windows or door frames in residential areas. The abdomen is bright green / yellow with small black dots. The underside of the abdomen also has a red spot, but this can fade in mature specimens. Young spiders may have a red spot on their head as well. Newly hatched spiderlings are red but their colour changes to brown before the autumn arrives. Copy courtesy of Jason Steel. Photo by Nick Dobbs, Bournemouth, Dorset 31-05-20
British Railways Brush Traction Type 4 Co-Co class 47/0 diesel-electric locomotive number 47004 of Eastfield Traction Maintenance Depot passes Kirkby Stephen signal box on the Up Main line with the additional 15:20 Kirkby Stephen to St. Albans return charter (1Z28) (formed of M4922, M4857, M4991, M4866, M7183, M35331, M4959, M5010, M4977 and M4875). Sunday 11th March 1984
Kirkby Stephen signal box is located by the Up Siding south of Kirky Stephen station, and is a British Railways London Midland Region Type 15 design fitted with a 20 lever London Midland Region Standard frame which opened on 27th October 1974 replacing an 1894-built Midland Railway Type 2a design signal box located a few yards to the south. The structure was built using parts moved from Kendal signal box which closed on 19th April 1973, and the frame is possibly part of the 30 lever frame that was installed at Kendal. The signal box was rewindowed with uPVC windows in 1996
The signal box carried a British Railways corporate identity printed design nameplate
The yellow painted Midland Railway mile post in front of the signal box shows that the location is 266½ miles from the buffer stops at London St. Pancras station
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The illuminated track diagram mounted above the block shelf in Farnham signal box. Monday 6th March 1989
Farnham West signal box was located by the Down line line between Farnham railway station and Firgrove Hill road overbridge, and was a London & South Western Railway Company type 4 design fitted with a 35 lever Railway Signal Company manufactured Stevens & Sons Tappet frame that opened in May 1901 replacing an earlier signal box which had opened on 20th November 1895. The signal box was renamed Farnham "B" on 5th January 1958 and was further renamed Farnham on 23rd December 1973 after the closure of Farnham "A" signal box. A M.L. Engineering (Plymouth) Limited entrance-exit signalling panel was commissioned on 28th September 1980 controlling the Alton area allowing the closure of Alton signal box. The panel was replaced on 21st July 1985 by a Westinghouse M4 entrance-exit signalling panel. The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows circa 2004. The signal box closed at 02:50 on 24th August 2013 and was officially scheduled to close on 27th August 2013 when new signalling controlled from the Woking Area Signalling Centre was due to be commissioned. Delays meant the new signalling at Farnham was not commissioned until 28th August and the Farnham to Alton signalling was not commissioned until 31st August
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Blea Moor signal box 14 signal (down goods loop home 2) protects movements from the Down Recess Siding, with the signal box behind. 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 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
The Down Goods Loop was taken out of use on 13th January 1985
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Sunlight and shadow on an Autumn afternoon as 508141 was departing from Meols with the 13.01 West Kirby to West Kirby Wirral Line service (2W26) on October 11th 2020. The platform buildings, footbridge and street-level ticket office at Meols are constructed of brick and concrete in Art-Deco style and were constructed by the LMS when the West Kirby line was electrified in 1938. The buildings had their metal framed windows replaced by UPVC windows in 2010. The platform lift towers were installed in 2019.
The 20 lever McKenzie & Holland Limited Number 16 frame in Saltmarshe signal box. Saturday 3rd February 1990
Saltmarshe signal box was located by the Up Main line alongside Trandy Lane level crossing in Laxton and was a North Eastern Railway Company type S2 design that opened in 1905 fitted with a 30 lever McKenzie & Holland Limited Number 16 frame. As it was McKenzie & Holland practice to include the gate wheel in the frame numbering the gate wheel was numbered 1 and the levers were numbered 2-29. An British Railways Eastern Region individual function switch controlling emergency replacement of the Up Main distant signal was commissioned on 5th September 1958. The lever frame was reduced to 20 levers (gate wheel + 19 levers) on 5th November 1972 and by the end of the month the gate wheel and level crossing gates were replaced by lifting barriers two weeks later. The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows in the early 2000s and the lever frame and IFS were replaced by a Tew Engineering Limited SM48 entrance exit signalling panel commissioned on 17th September 2006. The signal box closed on 24th November 2018 and replaced by signalling controlled from the Brough workstation in the York ROC commissioned on 26th November 2018
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A study in materials and textures: uPVC windows, paint flaking off a wooden door, copious pebble-dashing and slate tiles: details of the disused BT radio transmitter station, Portpatrick.
After getting off the tram at Soho Benson Road, I walked up towards Soho Hill and then onto Handsworth Park.
Benson Community School on Benson Road in Soho.
Grade II Listed Building
Summary
A school, designed for the Birmingham School Board by HR Yeoville Thomason and Cooper Whitwell and opened in 1888.
Description
MATERIALS: the building is of red brick, laid in English bond, with yellow, terracotta dressings and a plain tile roof. The spire above the plenum tower is of timber with a tiled roof and a lead cap.
PLAN: the original school building is roughly rectangular on plan and of one and two-storeys with classrooms set around the sides of two rectangular assembly halls which are placed at the centre.
EXTERIOR: the Benson Road front has four large gables, of which the three at left are flush and the one to right projects slightly. Each gable denotes a classroom inside the building and each has a tripartite window with yellow terracotta surround with cusped mouldings (the gables are a leitmotif of the building). At the centre, and rising into the gable, is a large window with four-centred head. This has three-lights, with mullions and two transoms of moulded terracotta. At either side are lower lancets with Tudor-arched heads. Recessed and set between the second and third gables is a further gable with three-light window placed at first floor level which forms one gable end of the southern, central hall. Each gable has plain bargeboards with a terracotta finial.
The south-west front has four gables of the type seen on the Benson Road front. Here they are stepped, at either side of the centre. This central bay originally had a projecting wing or porch, according to the Ordnance Survey map of 1904, but it has been rebuilt in the C20 and has a late-C20, single-storey projection at ground floor level of plum-coloured brick, and mid-C20 brickwork to the first floor, recessed above this. Further recessed, and rising above this, is the tower which has a square body to its lower stages, but which dies back by broaches to an octagonal upper body. The spire has louvered timber vents to its lower body and a miniature arcade to the top, below the cap which carries a weather vane. At far-left is a two-storey, projecting wing.
The north-east front has five gabled bays of which the pairs at right and left are configured as before. The central bay is lower and now connects to a later-C20, T-shaped wing, of which there are three attached to this front.
The north-west front has four-bays which are narrower than those seen elsewhere on the building. These have a central light with a generous central transom, which is otherwise undivided. The two lateral, gabled bays project. A projecting gabled wing, which is connected to the original school building by a narrow link corridor, was added to the north-western corner in the early-C21. Many windows, across the building, have had uPVC windows inserted into the original openings.
INTERIOR: the central halls are similar in size. Both have cross-axial iron trusses with cut-out patterns to the sides of their blades. The floors have wood blocks flooring with metal grilles for heating. At either side are doors and windows which lead to classrooms and have segmental heads. The lower walls of each hall have vertical boarding with a moulded rail to the top. Classrooms have similar dado panelling and metal or wood trusses, with suspended ceilings, or insulation boarding fitted to some rooms.
The three, T-shaped extensions on the north-east front and the addition to the north-western corner, all of which were added in the C20 and C21, are not of special interest.
History
The Birmingham School Board was brought into being by the Elementary Education Act of 1870. The Act, which empowered school boards to create new schools and pay the fees of the poorest children, was largely the result of campaigning by the Birmingham-centred National Education League. By 1902, when the Education Act abolished school boards and passed the responsibility for education to local authorities, the Birmingham School Board had built fifty-two new schools, as well as the Board's offices. All but four of these schools were designed by the architectural practice Martin and Chamberlain (from 1900 Martin and Martin), appointed Architect to the Board in 1870.
John Henry Chamberlain (1831-83) and William Martin (1828-1900) formed the practice Martin and Chamberlain in 1864. Following the death of Chamberlain, Martin was joined by his son, Frederick William Martin (1859-1917), and the practice continued under the same name until the death of William Martin when it was renamed Martin and Martin. The board schools became focal points within each district, serving as symbols of municipal pride and civic achievement; Martin and Chamberlain created a house style for their schools, which were characterised by their red-brick construction, tall ventilation towers, proliferation of gables, and decorative use of tiles and terracotta, sometimes displaying naturalistic forms. Chamberlain believed that beautiful and well-planned school architecture might offer children some compensation for drab, cramped homes, and in 1894 the Pall Mall Gazette commented that, 'In Birmingham you may generally recognise a Board School by its being the best building in the neighbourhood ... with lofty towers which serve the utilitarian purpose of giving excellent ventilation, gabled windows, warm red bricks and stained glass, the best of the Birmingham Board Schools have quite an artistic finish'.
J. H. Chamberlain, the leading creative force within Martin and Chamberlain, was profoundly influenced by Ruskin and his promotion of Venetian Gothic; Chamberlain played a unique role in defining Birmingham's civic architecture during the 1860s and 1870s, helping shape the city's celebrated movement of social and artistic improvement. He designed a number of other important public buildings, including libraries, baths, and hospitals, but in setting the style for the board schools he made an especially significant and lasting contribution to Birmingham's built environment. Frederick Martin, who took over much of the practice's design after Chamberlain's death, was responsible for a variety of public and commercial buildings, and housing, as well as the Board Schools. Martin developed the established mode of the schools' design, introducing a greater freedom in referencing historical styles and, as a leading practitioner of Birmingham's 'terracotta school', an increased use of terracotta.
Benson Road Junior School, which was originally known as Soho Road School, shows a clear debt to the style and practice of design outlined by Martin and Chamberlain. However, it is one of only four designs within the catchment of the Birmingham School Board which was not designed by them. This, the earliest of the four, was opened in 1888 and designed by Thomason and Whitwell to accommodate 962 pupils. Their partnership was formed in 1867 and the practice was one of the best known in Birmingham by the time of this commission. Earlier work had included the Singer's Hill Synagogue of 1854 (Thomason, alone); the Council House, Victoria Square, 1874-79; and several prominent buildings along Colmore Row.
The school building is not shown on the First Edition of the Ordnance Survey map of 1890, but is on the OS map of 1904, by which time the name of the street had changed to Benson Road. Both maps show a Wesleyan Methodist chapel and its Sunday School to the east of the Board School site. The surrounding area, bounded by Park Road and Bacchus Road, was covered with dense housing which has now been mostly demolished, including the area to the immediate west of the school, which forms its playing fields.
Reasons for Listing
Benson Road School is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural: an impressive school building by Thomason and Whitwell, one of the leading architectural practices in late-Victorian Birmingham. The building is well lit, clearly planned and seems intended to appeal to children.
* Historical: one of twenty-six surviving schools built by the Birmingham School Board, which together form one of the most important groups of board schools in the country.
* Intactness: although the building has undergone some changes, notably to the fenestration, structural alterations are relatively minor and additions have been carefully managed so that the central structure of the school is largely as originally built.
Barracks at Wretham Camp, near Thetford, clearly based on the Nissen Hut. I parked around the corner from the camp and furtively aimed my camera through a gap in the hedge, hoping not to attract attention.
They've got them done up very nicely haven't they? ...with stencilled house numbers, convector heaters, uPVC windows, trim lawns, whitewash and a light above the door.
When I saw these I was at once reminded of the full-sized houses of this pattern to be found around Yeovil in Somerset. See:
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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Carleton Crossing signal box located alongside the Down Main line by Blackpool Road level crossing in Carleton on the outskirts of Blackpool. 15:40, Sunday 5th June 1983
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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
Click here for the view thirty four years later
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The disused office block of a factory on Brislington Trading Estate, Bristol. The building has a number of vaguely Moderne flourishes such as the convex porch, the tall stairwell window and the metal window frames. It has that nice bricky look that I always enjoy. I wonder whether it might be the work of the local modernist A. E. Powell who, according to our own Mr Foyle, designed the Smith's Crisps factory which once stood on the opposite side of the road.
Unfortunately the original proportions have been unbalanced by an additional storey made from incongruent materials with windows of a different pattern. To make matters worse a driving school for motor-bicyclists has taken possession of one end of the ground floor and fitted uPVC windows. Evidently this has been done for cosmetic reasons rather than from necessity, for the less conspicuous metal window at the side has been left.
It is reassuring that children still get more fun from a scooter and a puddle than from all the adventure playgrounds and skateboard parks by which officials have sought to control and regulate their play.
Frodsham Junction signal box located between the Down Main (at the 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
On the gable end is an unpainted space where a London Midland & Scottish Railway Company post-1935 design nameboard has been removed and the roof finial above it has been severely doctored
Behind the signal box carried on a tubular steel post is 3 signal (up main home 2)
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Moreton On Lugg signal box by the Down Main line alongside a level crossing on a minor road between Moreton on Lugg and Stony Cross villages. Wednesday 5th October 1988
Moreton On Lugg signal box is a Great Western Railway Company type 12c design fitted with a 44 lever Great Western Railway Company Vertical Tappet 5-bar frame that was opened on 24th October 1943 for the London Midland and Scottish & Great Western Joint Railways replacing an earlier signal box located on the opposite side of the level crossing. A British Railways Western Region key control instrument was provided on 29th June 1958 to control the newly installed 100 signal (up main intermediate block home) in connection with the closure of Dinmore signal box. The level crossing gates were replaced by barriers on 26th October 1975, 100 signal and its switch were abolished on 3rd March 1991 and the signal box was fitted with uPVC windows circa 2005
The signal box is fitted with a Great Western Railway Company cast iron nameplate
In the six foot between the main lines is 16 signal (Disc For 17) for movements from the Down Main line to the Up Reception Siding or to the Up Main line
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The illuminated track diagram carried on the block shelf in Talacre signal box. Tuesday 21st February 1989
Talacre signal box located was a London & North Western Railway Company type 4 design fitted with a 24 lever London & North Western Railway Company Tumbler frame that opened in 1903, replacing Mofa Crossing signal box located a short distance to the west. The signal box and lever frame were second hand, being moved from Gronant Loops. The lever frame was relocked in 1984 using levers moved from Llysfaen signal box. Two individual function switches were commissioned on 29th October 1988 controlling emergency replacement of TE2R and TE21R signals, and the signal box was refurbished with uPVC windows in April 2010. The signal box was switched out of circuit at 21:25 on 23rd March 2018 and the signalling was taken out of use in the early hours of the following morning. The signal box was officially closed on 26th March 2018 when new signalling controlled from the Rhyl workstation in the Wales Railway Operating Centre was commissioned, and it was sold for use as an office
The diagram has a red coloured track circuit on the approach to the home signals. 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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Blackpool North No2 signal box's platform 4 and platform 3 starting signals. Thursday 20th March 2008
Blackpool Talbot Road 'A' signal box was Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company standard design fitted with a 120 lever Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company Tappet frame opened circa 1892 for the Preston & Wyre Railway, replacing an earlier signal box located a short distance to the south. The signal box was renamed Blackpool Talbot Road No2 in 1897, and the lever frame was reduced to 93 levers (11-103) in 1922 when levers 1-10 and 104-120 were removed. The signal box was further renamed Blackpool North No2 on 17th March 1932 and the lever frame was further reduced to 83 levers (11-93) at some time when levers 11-20 were removed, the remaining levers 21-103 being renumbered 11-93. The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows in the mid-2000s, and a Unipart Rail individual function switch to release Blackpool North Power Ground Frame Ground Switch Panel was commissioned on 31st January 2011 in connection with the closure of Blackpool North No1 signal box
70 signal (No 3 Platform Starting) and 86 signal (No 4 Platform Starting) are carried on a British Railways London Midland Region two doll balanced bracket on a tubular steel main stem. The signal has been fitted with modern staging with strong handrails
Behind, all carried on tubular steel posts are (left to right) 80 signal (Nos 4 To 8 Platform To Up Main) with Blackpool North No1 signal box 39 signal (up main distant) and Blackpool North No2 signal box 81 signal (Nos 4 To 8 Platform To Carriage Sidings Or Through Siding) below it, Blackpool North No2 signal box 68 signal (Nos 2 & 3 Platform Home To Up Main) with Blackpool North No1 signal box 39 signal (up main distant) and Blackpool North No2 signal box 69 signal (Nos 2 & 3 Platform To Carriage Sidings Or Through Siding) below it, and Blackpool North No2 signal box 66 signal (No 1 Platform Starting To Up Main) with Blackpool North No1 signal box 39 signal (up main distant) and Blackpool North No2 signal box 67 signal (No 1 Platform To Carriage Sidings Or Through Siding) below it
66 and 67 signals, along with 71 signal and platforms 1 and 2 were taken out of use pending recovery on 6th August 2017 in connection with the Blackpool line resignalling
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Part of the 33 lever tappet frame in Salwick signal box. Wednesday 26th July 2017
Salwick signal box was located east of Salwick railway station by the Up Fylde line, and was a The Railway Signal Company Limited standard design built for the Preston & Wyre Railway which opened in 1889 fitted with a 28 lever The 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 The 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 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 19th December 2017
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Mantle Lane signal box located on the Up side of the line at Coalville. Sunday 31st May 1987
Mantle Lane East signal box was a Midland Railway Company type 4c design fitted with a 28 lever Midland Railway Company Tappet frame that opened on 27th February 1910 replacing the 1884-built Mantle Lane Crossing signal box. The signal box was renamed Mantle Lane on 4th May 1969. A set of British Railways London Midland Region individual function switches were commissioned on 16th December 1979 to replace Coalville Crossing signal box and a British Railways London Midland Region individual function switch signalling panel was commissioned on 1st December 1985. The 1979 British Railways London Midland Region individual function switches were renewed on 14th December 1986
The signal box carries a non standard London Midland & Scottish Railway Company nameboard and one of the fixed front window sashes had been replaced by non standard sash. This eventually happened to all the front sashes prior to complete replacement by uPVC windows in the early 2000
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Pyewipe Road signal box located by the Down & Up Main line alongside Gilbey Road level crossing in Grimsby. Thursday 23rd July 1987
Pyewipe Road signal box is a British Railways Eastern Region type 16a design fitted with a 20 lever Railway Signal Company Great Northern Railway (Ireland) frame. From the early 2000s the box was open as required as the line between Marsh Junction to Immingham East Junction signal boxes was normally closed, and by the mid-2000s the large operating floor windows had been replaced by much smaller uPVC windows with a large area bricked up
The signal box carries a British Railways Eastern Region blue enamel nameplate
At the moment the opening date of the signal box is lost in the mists of time. The MSLR/GCR Signal Box Register lists a signal box here from circa 1910 until circa 1948, then a period without a signal box until circa 1953 when this signal box was provided. The current Signal Box Directory lists the signal box as opening circa 1958. However, there is a block post listed in British Railways' June 1953 Hours of Opening of Signal Boxes list and in its June 1957 supplement
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The illuminated track diagram mounted on the block shelf in Edgeley Junction No1 signal box. 09:47, Saturday 4th February 1989
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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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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Horrocksford Junction signal box located by the Down Main line at Clitheroe controlling the junction for the Horrocksford goods branch. Sunday 9th July 1989
Horrocksford Goods Junction signal box was a Saxby & Farmer type 6 design fitted with a 19 lever Saxby & Farmer frame opened in 1873 by signalling contractors Saxby & Farmer for the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company. The signal box had been renamed Horrocksford Junction by 1928 when a replacement 8 lever Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company frame was installed by the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company. An individual function switch was commissioned on 29th July 1979 controlling emergency replacement of R7/8 signal (8R signal only from circa 30th November 2009). A further individual function switch was commissioned on 27th October 1982 controlling emergency replacement of R2/3 signal (R2 signal only from circa 30th November 2009). The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows in 2008, and the signal box's illuminated track diagram was replaced by a Tew Engineering Limited SM48 individual function switch signalling panel commissioned on on 30th November 2009 which includes controls for HJ102 and HJ103 signals
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Monks Siding signal box located by the Down Goods line alongside Beaufort Street level crossing in Warrington. Thursday 15th September 2011
Monks Siding signal box is a London & North Western Railway Company type 3 design which opened in 1875 fitted with a 20 lever London & North Western Railway Company Tumbler frame. The original signal box door and steps were originally located at the end of the 4' 6" operating floor window sashes. The doorway was moved by 1972 to just in front of the back wall with the steps facing the running line. The steps were then moved to Liverpool end of the signal box to allow the level crossing to be widened, possibly in conjunction with the level crossing gates being replaced by full width lifting barriers on 20th December 1976. The signal box was rewindowed with uPVC windows sometime by June 2003. The signal box diagram was replaced in the shape of a Tew Engineering Limited SM48 signalling panel on 9th July 2012 with an emergency replacement for MS2R signal being included in it in connection with resignalling between Monks Siding and Arpley Junction signal boxes
The signal box carries a London Midland & Scottish Railway Company post-1935 design nameboard
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Truro signal box by the Up Main line at the east end of Truro railway station. Thursday 11th May 1989
Truro East signal box was a Great Western Railway Company type 7a design fitted with a 45 lever Great Western Railway Double Twist frame that opened on 5th March 1899 replacing an earlier signal box. The level crossing adjacent to the signal box opened on 21st June 1971 and Truro East signal box closed on 23rd October 1971 to allow a replacement lever frame to be installed although the Up Main Home, Up Main Starting, Down Main Home and Down Main Inner Home signals remained being fixed at danger and passed at danger under the authority of the Truro West signalman. The signal box reopened named Truro on 7th November 1971 fitted with a 54 lever Great Western Railway Vertical Tappet 5-bar frame, the resignalling resulting in the closure Truro West, Penwithers Junction and Penryn signal boxes. The lever frame was part of the lever frame previously installed at Bristol East Depot Main Line signal box on the Paddington Arrival to Penzance line. A British Railways Western Region key control instrument was commissioned on 12th December 1977 to release Chacewater Ground Frame which had replaced Chasewater signal box. The key control instrument was decommissioned on 9th August 1998 when Chacewater Ground Frame was taken out of use. The signal box was fitted with uPVC windows by the mid-2000s which nicely matched the original Great Western Railway style
The signal box carried a small printed nameplate where the Great Western Railway Company cast iron nameplate was formerly fitted, the nameplate having been ordered from Reading Signal Works in January 1897. A replacement Great Western Railway Company style nameplate was supplied to Network Rail by Timesegment Limited in the early 2000s
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It's easy to see why this pub claims to be "probably" the oldest pub in Ledbury, Herefordshire, England.
The sign on the front says, "Late 16th Century", so it's fair to assume that the Seven Stars was originally built when Elizabeth the First was on the throne.
I'm guessing that the uPVC window frames are not Elizabethan (well, they are - Elizabeth the Second!) but as they have been carefully fitted to the outside of the building and do not appear to interfere with the structure, I can forgive them that bit of weatherproofing.