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21 minutes ago, Tim V said:

Suggest put the signals under the box they relate to.

 

Perhaps an extra column for indexing photos of signals alongside controlling box.

 

Andy

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Two for the 'Where are these please?' category. I think they are not far away from each other and the sign on the first is headed 'North Eastern Railway'.

Edit to add date about 1984 and to add information from Mike Wiltshire that this is Castleford Gates...

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... and this is Whitwood Junction

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3 hours ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

Two for the 'Where are these please?' category. I think they are not far away from each other and the sign on the first is headed 'North Eastern Railway'.

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Top one is Castleford Gates, the box before Castleford Station on the Castleford - Leeds or Wakefield route out of Castleford. 

 

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/372643

 

Mike Wiltshire

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22 hours ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

Two for the 'Where are these please?' category. I think they are not far away from each other and the sign on the first is headed 'North Eastern Railway'.

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18 hours ago, Coach bogie said:

Top one is Castleford Gates, the box before Castleford Station on the Castleford - Leeds or Wakefield route out of Castleford. 

 

18 hours ago, Coach bogie said:

I suspect the lower one is nearby Whitwood Junction. 

 

Thank you Mike and Ian, much appreciated. Apologies for not saying that the date would be about 1984

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Balne Moor H&BRly, 1885 to 1959. Attached diagram shows the layout as installed and is from the c1904 Diagram Book. A few years later, a siding was added and a new locking frame installed. To accommodate this, the operating floor was extended, see photo',

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No photo attached (copyright) but a pal has acquired a print of Birkenhead Park H signal box with a BR green Merseyside EMU passing it.

 

He's curious to know the significance of the "H" suffix, as now am I (the area is well outside my sphere of knowledge).

 

Can anybody help?

 

John   

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5 hours ago, Poor Old Bruce said:

 

Borough Green, SECR, 26 Oct 1984

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Interesting concrete fence on the platform. It doesn't look like a product of the ex-LSWR concrete works at Exmouth Junction. Did the SECR have an equivalent facility?

 

John

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6 minutes ago, Dunsignalling said:

Interesting concrete fence on the platform. It doesn't look like a product of the ex-LSWR concrete works at Exmouth Junction. Did the SECR have an equivalent facility?

 

John


These are ubiquitous features on stations on the old SECR - a particularly good example is Newington, between Sittingbourne and Rainham - where all the fencing is precast concrete, as are the platforms and their supports - the down platform is on an embankment at the up end and even in this area, the varying height platform supports are precast concrete. The fence panels are increased in height to accommodate the erstwhile running in sign boards, where the fixing bolt holes are still present. The fences etc are still in good, albeit weathered condition although there are areas where the concrete has spalled around the reinforcement on the posts and repairs can be seen. Newington was rebuilt as part of the Kent Coast electrification when the line was quadrupled from here towards Rainham - so the platforms must date from the late 50s - and are presumably BR Exmouth products. 
 

Rainham, Meopham and other locations have similar features. Great for railway modelling. 

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That pile of concrete troughing at Borough Green is, I think, for the resignalling of No 2 Boat Train Route. At that time I think Borough Green fringed with the new Victoria box at Clapham Junction. Maidstone East box would be the recipient of a modern panel with, ISTR, a mimic diagram driven electronically - then cutting-edge stuff - controlling the route from the fringe with Victoria through to a fringe with Ashford panel, and Borough Green would close. 

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