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Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
AN ISLAND OF SEMAPHORES IN NORTH WALES An island of semaphores in North Wales. Completion of a project to re-signal 50 miles of the North Wales Main Line in Spring 2018 means that anyone travelling along the coast by rail towards Holyhead will now wait until reaching the Isle of Anglesey before encountering any semaphore signalling. Once on the island, though, there are four BRITAIN’S OLDEST SIGNAL BOXES Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
TWO NOTABLE MARCHES LINE SIGNAL BOXES Among 14 signal boxes controlling the busy Marches Line between Shrewsbury and Newport, two of the finest and most historic survivors are identical LNWR/GW joint designs at Leominster and at nearby Woofferton Junction (seen above) both believed to date from 1875. The Marches Line remains a charming outpost of mechanical signalling, and despite last year’s GLOUCESTERSHIRE STEAM IN THE 1960S CONSIDERABLE interest was aroused by the account I published last week of my late father’s 1961 rail travels in Wales so, for what will hopefully prove to be one of my final lockdown retrospectives, this is a look through his lens at steam action in Gloucestershire during the early 1960s. As in Wales, closures across NARROW GAUGE ACROSS NORTHERN SARDINIA Macomer is a two-hour train ride from Olbia, so roughly half way to Cagliari and its narrow gauge station is both a terminus and workshops for the 950mm (3’ 1”) lines in northern Sardinia. Dotted around the station area are a handful of the attractive, but graffiti-covered, 1950s Fiat railcars, and while I saw a coupleshunting in the
DISTANT DELIGHTS IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMR 158856 passes the 1981 Uttoxeter Signal Box with 1K19 from Derby (15.42) to Crewe. For those unfamiliar with the North Staffordshire Line, this 35-mile link between Stoke-on-Trent and Derby is a sleepy and pleasantly rural double-track route that sees hourly passenger services and only the very occasional non-passenger service, usually TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FOR BRITAIN’S OLDEST WORKING SIGNAL BOX Delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic mean that a re-signalling project on Teesside due to be completed this month (September 2020) has slipped to early next year, granting a stay of execution to Britain’s oldest working signal box. Re-signalling a 4½-mile stretch of the Durham Coast Line from north of Stockton-on-Tees toBillingham has been
SUMMER OF ’62 ON THE SOMERSET & DORSET A view looking west from the S&D platform at Templecombe on 4 August 1962 (above) with Midland Railway 4F 0-6-0 44102 standing among the lines of freight wagons. My father Trefor was a prolific correspondent with our local newspaper, the “Gloucestershire Echo” on the subject of rail closures. This letter, dated 8 June 1962, sets out his WHERRY LINES’ CLASS 37 FAREWELL Wherry Lines’ Class 37 farewell. Any day now the wonderful sight and sound of Class 37s top-and-tailing two or three coaches on services between Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft will finally come to an end, as the new Stadler Class 755 bi-mode units enter service. For the past five years, the chance to travel behind the 1960s vintageRAILWAYWORLD.NET
Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
AN ISLAND OF SEMAPHORES IN NORTH WALES An island of semaphores in North Wales. Completion of a project to re-signal 50 miles of the North Wales Main Line in Spring 2018 means that anyone travelling along the coast by rail towards Holyhead will now wait until reaching the Isle of Anglesey before encountering any semaphore signalling. Once on the island, though, there are four BRITAIN’S OLDEST SIGNAL BOXES Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
TWO NOTABLE MARCHES LINE SIGNAL BOXES Among 14 signal boxes controlling the busy Marches Line between Shrewsbury and Newport, two of the finest and most historic survivors are identical LNWR/GW joint designs at Leominster and at nearby Woofferton Junction (seen above) both believed to date from 1875. The Marches Line remains a charming outpost of mechanical signalling, and despite last year’s GLOUCESTERSHIRE STEAM IN THE 1960S CONSIDERABLE interest was aroused by the account I published last week of my late father’s 1961 rail travels in Wales so, for what will hopefully prove to be one of my final lockdown retrospectives, this is a look through his lens at steam action in Gloucestershire during the early 1960s. As in Wales, closures across NARROW GAUGE ACROSS NORTHERN SARDINIA Macomer is a two-hour train ride from Olbia, so roughly half way to Cagliari and its narrow gauge station is both a terminus and workshops for the 950mm (3’ 1”) lines in northern Sardinia. Dotted around the station area are a handful of the attractive, but graffiti-covered, 1950s Fiat railcars, and while I saw a coupleshunting in the
DISTANT DELIGHTS IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMR 158856 passes the 1981 Uttoxeter Signal Box with 1K19 from Derby (15.42) to Crewe. For those unfamiliar with the North Staffordshire Line, this 35-mile link between Stoke-on-Trent and Derby is a sleepy and pleasantly rural double-track route that sees hourly passenger services and only the very occasional non-passenger service, usually TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FOR BRITAIN’S OLDEST WORKING SIGNAL BOX Delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic mean that a re-signalling project on Teesside due to be completed this month (September 2020) has slipped to early next year, granting a stay of execution to Britain’s oldest working signal box. Re-signalling a 4½-mile stretch of the Durham Coast Line from north of Stockton-on-Tees toBillingham has been
SUMMER OF ’62 ON THE SOMERSET & DORSET A view looking west from the S&D platform at Templecombe on 4 August 1962 (above) with Midland Railway 4F 0-6-0 44102 standing among the lines of freight wagons. My father Trefor was a prolific correspondent with our local newspaper, the “Gloucestershire Echo” on the subject of rail closures. This letter, dated 8 June 1962, sets out his WHERRY LINES’ CLASS 37 FAREWELL Wherry Lines’ Class 37 farewell. Any day now the wonderful sight and sound of Class 37s top-and-tailing two or three coaches on services between Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft will finally come to an end, as the new Stadler Class 755 bi-mode units enter service. For the past five years, the chance to travel behind the 1960s vintage SUMMER OF ’62 ON THE SOMERSET & DORSET A view looking west from the S&D platform at Templecombe on 4 August 1962 (above) with Midland Railway 4F 0-6-0 44102 standing among the lines of freight wagons. My father Trefor was a prolific correspondent with our local newspaper, the “Gloucestershire Echo” on the subject of rail closures. This letter, dated 8 June 1962, sets out his FAVOURITE PHOTO-SPOTS: EARLES SIDINGS Finding an attractive and remote rural location where there is a variety of freight and passenger traffic, a signal box controlling semaphore signals and heritage diesel action might sound too good to be true.But that was what I was able to savour on Thursday (22 October 2020) at Earles Sidings, near the village of Hope SEMAPHORE SWANSONG IN SOUTH WALES Semaphore swansong in South Wales. Time is fast running out for the last two outposts of mechanical signalling on the South Wales Main Line, with planned re-signalling of 35 route miles from Swansea to Whitland by September 2023 spelling an end to the semaphores at Ferryside and at Pembrey & Burry Port. Paying a return visit toPembrey on 30
SEMAPHORES IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMT 153319 passes Scropton Crossing on 25 March 2017 with a Derby-bound service. Scropton Crossing is a rather delightful spot, where a North Staffordshire Railway box dating from 1884 controls a little-used road crossing and has six semaphores, with distant, home and section signals in each direction (SN1/2/3 in the up andSN19/18/17 on the
FAVOURITE PHOTO-SPOTS: WORCESTER Favourite photo-spots: Worcester. For a chance to savour Britain’s finest collection of lower quadrant semaphore signals, and a number of other unique historic features, it is well worth spending a few hours on and around Worcester’s two stations, Shrub Hill and ForegateStreet.
SUN AND SEMAPHORES ON THE SOUTH COAST Sun and semaphores on the South Coast. Two remarkable outposts of mechanical signalling are the neighbouring West Sussex resorts of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, which have somehow outlived a re-signalling of the Mid-Sussex Line south of Horsham. That 2014 exercise saw the elimination of signal boxes at Billingshurst, Pulborough and Amberley HASLEMERE’S GRADE II LISTED SIGNAL BOX Control of colour lights by traditional lever frame is a reasonably common feature of Britain’s signalling infrastructure, but few signal boxes can surely match Haslemere, where 2018 marks 81 years since replacement of its semaphore signals by colour lights in 1937, to coincide with electrification of the Portsmouth Direct Line. Haslemere is one of onlyLYMINGTON BRANCH
Lymington branch – then and now. Returning to the 5¼-mile Lymington branch line this weekend, almost a decade after the end of heritage traction, I was interested to see how the designated community railway had fared in the absence of the slam-door stock that had made it an enthusiast mecca from 2005 until May 2010. When the two 3-CIG slam NARROW GAUGE DELIGHTS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC The last remaining 760mm line operated by CD is a quite remarkable survival. It is a 20km (12.5 mile) line from a junction station in a village called Třemešná ve Slezsku to a small town called Osoblaha traversing a narrow rural peninsula of the Czech Republic jutting into neighbouring Poland. The line opened in 1898, principally to serve a A LOOK AT THE FUTURE OF SIGNALLING IN WALES A look at the future of signalling in Wales. Eight years after its opening in October 2010, the £16.5 million Wales Railway Operating Centre (WROC) is really starting to come into its own, as more and more of the Principality’s network falls under its control. Situated in an anonymous and highly-fortified building, surrounded by razorwire
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Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
TWO NOTABLE MARCHES LINE SIGNAL BOXES Among 14 signal boxes controlling the busy Marches Line between Shrewsbury and Newport, two of the finest and most historic survivors are identical LNWR/GW joint designs at Leominster and at nearby Woofferton Junction (seen above) both believed to date from 1875. The Marches Line remains a charming outpost of mechanical signalling, and despite last year’s AN ISLAND OF SEMAPHORES IN NORTH WALES An island of semaphores in North Wales. Completion of a project to re-signal 50 miles of the North Wales Main Line in Spring 2018 means that anyone travelling along the coast by rail towards Holyhead will now wait until reaching the Isle of Anglesey before encountering any semaphore signalling. Once on the island, though, there are four BRITAIN’S OLDEST SIGNAL BOXES Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
THE END OF METRE-GAUGE STEAM IN PAKISTAN The end of metre-gauge steam in Pakistan. EXACTLY 15 years ago today (Wednesday, 1 June 2005) I spent 11 hours crossing the Thar Desert in the Sindh Province of Pakistan aboard one of that country’s last three surviving metre-gauge steam services, the twice-monthly 07.00 service MG-2 Down from Mirpur Khas to Nawabshah Junction. FAVOURITE PHOTO-SPOTS: EARLES SIDINGS Finding an attractive and remote rural location where there is a variety of freight and passenger traffic, a signal box controlling semaphore signals and heritage diesel action might sound too good to be true.But that was what I was able to savour on Thursday (22 October 2020) at Earles Sidings, near the village of Hope DISTANT DELIGHTS IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMR 158856 passes the 1981 Uttoxeter Signal Box with 1K19 from Derby (15.42) to Crewe. For those unfamiliar with the North Staffordshire Line, this 35-mile link between Stoke-on-Trent and Derby is a sleepy and pleasantly rural double-track route that sees hourly passenger services and only the very occasional non-passenger service, usually SEMAPHORES IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMT 153319 passes Scropton Crossing on 25 March 2017 with a Derby-bound service. Scropton Crossing is a rather delightful spot, where a North Staffordshire Railway box dating from 1884 controls a little-used road crossing and has six semaphores, with distant, home and section signals in each direction (SN1/2/3 in the up andSN19/18/17 on the
WHERRY LINES’ CLASS 37 FAREWELL Wherry Lines’ Class 37 farewell. Any day now the wonderful sight and sound of Class 37s top-and-tailing two or three coaches on services between Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft will finally come to an end, as the new Stadler Class 755 bi-mode units enter service. For the past five years, the chance to travel behind the 1960s vintageLYMINGTON BRANCH
Lymington branch – then and now. Returning to the 5¼-mile Lymington branch line this weekend, almost a decade after the end of heritage traction, I was interested to see how the designated community railway had fared in the absence of the slam-door stock that had made it an enthusiast mecca from 2005 until May 2010. When the two 3-CIG slamRAILWAYWORLD.NET
Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
TWO NOTABLE MARCHES LINE SIGNAL BOXES Among 14 signal boxes controlling the busy Marches Line between Shrewsbury and Newport, two of the finest and most historic survivors are identical LNWR/GW joint designs at Leominster and at nearby Woofferton Junction (seen above) both believed to date from 1875. The Marches Line remains a charming outpost of mechanical signalling, and despite last year’s AN ISLAND OF SEMAPHORES IN NORTH WALES An island of semaphores in North Wales. Completion of a project to re-signal 50 miles of the North Wales Main Line in Spring 2018 means that anyone travelling along the coast by rail towards Holyhead will now wait until reaching the Isle of Anglesey before encountering any semaphore signalling. Once on the island, though, there are four BRITAIN’S OLDEST SIGNAL BOXES Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
THE END OF METRE-GAUGE STEAM IN PAKISTAN The end of metre-gauge steam in Pakistan. EXACTLY 15 years ago today (Wednesday, 1 June 2005) I spent 11 hours crossing the Thar Desert in the Sindh Province of Pakistan aboard one of that country’s last three surviving metre-gauge steam services, the twice-monthly 07.00 service MG-2 Down from Mirpur Khas to Nawabshah Junction. FAVOURITE PHOTO-SPOTS: EARLES SIDINGS Finding an attractive and remote rural location where there is a variety of freight and passenger traffic, a signal box controlling semaphore signals and heritage diesel action might sound too good to be true.But that was what I was able to savour on Thursday (22 October 2020) at Earles Sidings, near the village of Hope DISTANT DELIGHTS IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMR 158856 passes the 1981 Uttoxeter Signal Box with 1K19 from Derby (15.42) to Crewe. For those unfamiliar with the North Staffordshire Line, this 35-mile link between Stoke-on-Trent and Derby is a sleepy and pleasantly rural double-track route that sees hourly passenger services and only the very occasional non-passenger service, usually SEMAPHORES IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMT 153319 passes Scropton Crossing on 25 March 2017 with a Derby-bound service. Scropton Crossing is a rather delightful spot, where a North Staffordshire Railway box dating from 1884 controls a little-used road crossing and has six semaphores, with distant, home and section signals in each direction (SN1/2/3 in the up andSN19/18/17 on the
WHERRY LINES’ CLASS 37 FAREWELL Wherry Lines’ Class 37 farewell. Any day now the wonderful sight and sound of Class 37s top-and-tailing two or three coaches on services between Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft will finally come to an end, as the new Stadler Class 755 bi-mode units enter service. For the past five years, the chance to travel behind the 1960s vintageLYMINGTON BRANCH
Lymington branch – then and now. Returning to the 5¼-mile Lymington branch line this weekend, almost a decade after the end of heritage traction, I was interested to see how the designated community railway had fared in the absence of the slam-door stock that had made it an enthusiast mecca from 2005 until May 2010. When the two 3-CIG slamBONNY BLAIR ATHOLL
Spending a weekend at Pitlochry meant the chance for a Saturday (5 June 2021) visit to delightful Blair Atholl, one of the remotest stations on the Highland Main Line, and one of the route’s remaining outposts of mechanical signalling. Blair Atholl’s attractive 1890-vintage McKenzie & Holland signal box stands just south of thestation and
BRITAIN’S OLDEST SIGNAL BOXES Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
DISTANT DELIGHTS IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMR 158856 passes the 1981 Uttoxeter Signal Box with 1K19 from Derby (15.42) to Crewe. For those unfamiliar with the North Staffordshire Line, this 35-mile link between Stoke-on-Trent and Derby is a sleepy and pleasantly rural double-track route that sees hourly passenger services and only the very occasional non-passenger service, usually SUMMER OF ’62 ON THE SOMERSET & DORSET A view looking west from the S&D platform at Templecombe on 4 August 1962 (above) with Midland Railway 4F 0-6-0 44102 standing among the lines of freight wagons. My father Trefor was a prolific correspondent with our local newspaper, the “Gloucestershire Echo” on the subject of rail closures. This letter, dated 8 June 1962, sets out his TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FOR BRITAIN’S OLDEST WORKING SIGNAL BOX Delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic mean that a re-signalling project on Teesside due to be completed this month (September 2020) has slipped to early next year, granting a stay of execution to Britain’s oldest working signal box. Re-signalling a 4½-mile stretch of the Durham Coast Line from north of Stockton-on-Tees toBillingham has been
SUN AND SEMAPHORES ON THE SOUTH COAST Sun and semaphores on the South Coast. Two remarkable outposts of mechanical signalling are the neighbouring West Sussex resorts of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, which have somehow outlived a re-signalling of the Mid-Sussex Line south of Horsham. That 2014 exercise saw the elimination of signal boxes at Billingshurst, Pulborough and Amberley HASLEMERE’S GRADE II LISTED SIGNAL BOX Control of colour lights by traditional lever frame is a reasonably common feature of Britain’s signalling infrastructure, but few signal boxes can surely match Haslemere, where 2018 marks 81 years since replacement of its semaphore signals by colour lights in 1937, to coincide with electrification of the Portsmouth Direct Line. Haslemere is one of onlyLYMINGTON BRANCH
Lymington branch – then and now. Returning to the 5¼-mile Lymington branch line this weekend, almost a decade after the end of heritage traction, I was interested to see how the designated community railway had fared in the absence of the slam-door stock that had made it an enthusiast mecca from 2005 until May 2010. When the two 3-CIG slam NARROW GAUGE DELIGHTS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC The last remaining 760mm line operated by CD is a quite remarkable survival. It is a 20km (12.5 mile) line from a junction station in a village called Třemešná ve Slezsku to a small town called Osoblaha traversing a narrow rural peninsula of the Czech Republic jutting into neighbouring Poland. The line opened in 1898, principally to serve a A LOOK AT THE FUTURE OF SIGNALLING IN WALES A look at the future of signalling in Wales. Eight years after its opening in October 2010, the £16.5 million Wales Railway Operating Centre (WROC) is really starting to come into its own, as more and more of the Principality’s network falls under its control. Situated in an anonymous and highly-fortified building, surrounded by razorwire
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Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
AN ISLAND OF SEMAPHORES IN NORTH WALES An island of semaphores in North Wales. Completion of a project to re-signal 50 miles of the North Wales Main Line in Spring 2018 means that anyone travelling along the coast by rail towards Holyhead will now wait until reaching the Isle of Anglesey before encountering any semaphore signalling. Once on the island, though, there are four TWO NOTABLE MARCHES LINE SIGNAL BOXES Among 14 signal boxes controlling the busy Marches Line between Shrewsbury and Newport, two of the finest and most historic survivors are identical LNWR/GW joint designs at Leominster and at nearby Woofferton Junction (seen above) both believed to date from 1875. The Marches Line remains a charming outpost of mechanical signalling, and despite last year’s GLOUCESTERSHIRE STEAM IN THE 1960S CONSIDERABLE interest was aroused by the account I published last week of my late father’s 1961 rail travels in Wales so, for what will hopefully prove to be one of my final lockdown retrospectives, this is a look through his lens at steam action in Gloucestershire during the early 1960s. As in Wales, closures across DISTANT DELIGHTS IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMR 158856 passes the 1981 Uttoxeter Signal Box with 1K19 from Derby (15.42) to Crewe. For those unfamiliar with the North Staffordshire Line, this 35-mile link between Stoke-on-Trent and Derby is a sleepy and pleasantly rural double-track route that sees hourly passenger services and only the very occasional non-passenger service, usually SEMAPHORES IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMT 153319 passes Scropton Crossing on 25 March 2017 with a Derby-bound service. Scropton Crossing is a rather delightful spot, where a North Staffordshire Railway box dating from 1884 controls a little-used road crossing and has six semaphores, with distant, home and section signals in each direction (SN1/2/3 in the up andSN19/18/17 on the
TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FOR BRITAIN’S OLDEST WORKING SIGNAL BOX Delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic mean that a re-signalling project on Teesside due to be completed this month (September 2020) has slipped to early next year, granting a stay of execution to Britain’s oldest working signal box. Re-signalling a 4½-mile stretch of the Durham Coast Line from north of Stockton-on-Tees toBillingham has been
BRITAIN’S LAST CO-ACTING SEMAPHORES Britain’s last co-acting semaphores. Co-acting signals were once a fairly common feature of our railways, but are now an endangered species. There are only three remaining examples on the national network, of which one will disappear early next year and another is threatened by potential electrification and re-signalling. HUMBERSIDE’S SEMAPHORE SWANSONG Humberside’s semaphore swansong. Rail-borne visitors to the UK’s 2017 city of culture could probably be forgiven for failing to spot during the latter stages of their journey what many enthusiasts would describe as some of the finest remaining semaphore signalling in England. It survives on a 9.5 mile stretch of line between Gilberdyke WHERRY LINES’ CLASS 37 FAREWELL Wherry Lines’ Class 37 farewell. Any day now the wonderful sight and sound of Class 37s top-and-tailing two or three coaches on services between Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft will finally come to an end, as the new Stadler Class 755 bi-mode units enter service. For the past five years, the chance to travel behind the 1960s vintageRAILWAYWORLD.NET
Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
AN ISLAND OF SEMAPHORES IN NORTH WALES An island of semaphores in North Wales. Completion of a project to re-signal 50 miles of the North Wales Main Line in Spring 2018 means that anyone travelling along the coast by rail towards Holyhead will now wait until reaching the Isle of Anglesey before encountering any semaphore signalling. Once on the island, though, there are four TWO NOTABLE MARCHES LINE SIGNAL BOXES Among 14 signal boxes controlling the busy Marches Line between Shrewsbury and Newport, two of the finest and most historic survivors are identical LNWR/GW joint designs at Leominster and at nearby Woofferton Junction (seen above) both believed to date from 1875. The Marches Line remains a charming outpost of mechanical signalling, and despite last year’s GLOUCESTERSHIRE STEAM IN THE 1960S CONSIDERABLE interest was aroused by the account I published last week of my late father’s 1961 rail travels in Wales so, for what will hopefully prove to be one of my final lockdown retrospectives, this is a look through his lens at steam action in Gloucestershire during the early 1960s. As in Wales, closures across DISTANT DELIGHTS IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMR 158856 passes the 1981 Uttoxeter Signal Box with 1K19 from Derby (15.42) to Crewe. For those unfamiliar with the North Staffordshire Line, this 35-mile link between Stoke-on-Trent and Derby is a sleepy and pleasantly rural double-track route that sees hourly passenger services and only the very occasional non-passenger service, usually SEMAPHORES IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMT 153319 passes Scropton Crossing on 25 March 2017 with a Derby-bound service. Scropton Crossing is a rather delightful spot, where a North Staffordshire Railway box dating from 1884 controls a little-used road crossing and has six semaphores, with distant, home and section signals in each direction (SN1/2/3 in the up andSN19/18/17 on the
TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FOR BRITAIN’S OLDEST WORKING SIGNAL BOX Delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic mean that a re-signalling project on Teesside due to be completed this month (September 2020) has slipped to early next year, granting a stay of execution to Britain’s oldest working signal box. Re-signalling a 4½-mile stretch of the Durham Coast Line from north of Stockton-on-Tees toBillingham has been
BRITAIN’S LAST CO-ACTING SEMAPHORES Britain’s last co-acting semaphores. Co-acting signals were once a fairly common feature of our railways, but are now an endangered species. There are only three remaining examples on the national network, of which one will disappear early next year and another is threatened by potential electrification and re-signalling. HUMBERSIDE’S SEMAPHORE SWANSONG Humberside’s semaphore swansong. Rail-borne visitors to the UK’s 2017 city of culture could probably be forgiven for failing to spot during the latter stages of their journey what many enthusiasts would describe as some of the finest remaining semaphore signalling in England. It survives on a 9.5 mile stretch of line between Gilberdyke WHERRY LINES’ CLASS 37 FAREWELL Wherry Lines’ Class 37 farewell. Any day now the wonderful sight and sound of Class 37s top-and-tailing two or three coaches on services between Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft will finally come to an end, as the new Stadler Class 755 bi-mode units enter service. For the past five years, the chance to travel behind the 1960s vintageBONNY BLAIR ATHOLL
Spending a weekend at Pitlochry meant the chance for a Saturday (5 June 2021) visit to delightful Blair Atholl, one of the remotest stations on the Highland Main Line, and one of the route’s remaining outposts of mechanical signalling. Blair Atholl’s attractive 1890-vintage McKenzie & Holland signal box stands just south of thestation and
FIVE YEARS OF LOST SEMAPHORES FIVE YEARS after I began touring Britain in search of surviving semaphores to describe and photograph for my planned book seems like a timely moment to take a look back at the many places which have lost their mechanical signalling in that time. While there are still some wonderful outposts of mechanical signalling, a considerable BRITAIN’S OLDEST SIGNAL BOXES Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
SUMMER OF ’62 ON THE SOMERSET & DORSET A view looking west from the S&D platform at Templecombe on 4 August 1962 (above) with Midland Railway 4F 0-6-0 44102 standing among the lines of freight wagons. My father Trefor was a prolific correspondent with our local newspaper, the “Gloucestershire Echo” on the subject of rail closures. This letter, dated 8 June 1962, sets out his TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FOR BRITAIN’S OLDEST WORKING SIGNAL BOX Delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic mean that a re-signalling project on Teesside due to be completed this month (September 2020) has slipped to early next year, granting a stay of execution to Britain’s oldest working signal box. Re-signalling a 4½-mile stretch of the Durham Coast Line from north of Stockton-on-Tees toBillingham has been
SEMAPHORES IN SOUTH-WEST SCOTLAND Semaphores in south-west Scotland. After last year’s return to Stranraer Harbour, it is time to pay another visit to south-west Scotland and to the four southernmost outposts of mechanical signalling on the Glasgow & South Western main line between Glasgow and Carlisle. Three of the quartet are Glasgow & South Western Railway(G&SWR) designs
A TRIP ON THE NEW-LOOK GOBLIN A fleet of 18 dual-voltage four-car units has been built by Bombardier for operation of GOBLIN and the Euston-Watford services (710256-273), of which six are required to maintain the seven-days-a-week, 15-minute frequency, of GOBLIN services. 710258 waits in platform 1 at Barking on 30 October 2019 with the 12.48 to Gospel Oak. NARROW GAUGE DELIGHTS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC The last remaining 760mm line operated by CD is a quite remarkable survival. It is a 20km (12.5 mile) line from a junction station in a village called Třemešná ve Slezsku to a small town called Osoblaha traversing a narrow rural peninsula of the Czech Republic jutting into neighbouring Poland. The line opened in 1898, principally to serve a A LOOK AT THE FUTURE OF SIGNALLING IN WALES A look at the future of signalling in Wales. Eight years after its opening in October 2010, the £16.5 million Wales Railway Operating Centre (WROC) is really starting to come into its own, as more and more of the Principality’s network falls under its control. Situated in an anonymous and highly-fortified building, surrounded by razorwire
GHOST TRAIN TO NEWHAVEN MARINE A little over 15 minutes later this “ghost train” pulls out of Marine station past the station’s starting signal NH35 – the last semaphore signal anywhere in this area – and returns empty stock to Brighton. It is a particularly British approach to railways that pretends Newhaven Marine station isRAILWAYWORLD.NET
Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
AN ISLAND OF SEMAPHORES IN NORTH WALES An island of semaphores in North Wales. Completion of a project to re-signal 50 miles of the North Wales Main Line in Spring 2018 means that anyone travelling along the coast by rail towards Holyhead will now wait until reaching the Isle of Anglesey before encountering any semaphore signalling. Once on the island, though, there are four TWO NOTABLE MARCHES LINE SIGNAL BOXES Among 14 signal boxes controlling the busy Marches Line between Shrewsbury and Newport, two of the finest and most historic survivors are identical LNWR/GW joint designs at Leominster and at nearby Woofferton Junction (seen above) both believed to date from 1875. The Marches Line remains a charming outpost of mechanical signalling, and despite last year’s GLOUCESTERSHIRE STEAM IN THE 1960S CONSIDERABLE interest was aroused by the account I published last week of my late father’s 1961 rail travels in Wales so, for what will hopefully prove to be one of my final lockdown retrospectives, this is a look through his lens at steam action in Gloucestershire during the early 1960s. As in Wales, closures across DISTANT DELIGHTS IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMR 158856 passes the 1981 Uttoxeter Signal Box with 1K19 from Derby (15.42) to Crewe. For those unfamiliar with the North Staffordshire Line, this 35-mile link between Stoke-on-Trent and Derby is a sleepy and pleasantly rural double-track route that sees hourly passenger services and only the very occasional non-passenger service, usually SEMAPHORES IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMT 153319 passes Scropton Crossing on 25 March 2017 with a Derby-bound service. Scropton Crossing is a rather delightful spot, where a North Staffordshire Railway box dating from 1884 controls a little-used road crossing and has six semaphores, with distant, home and section signals in each direction (SN1/2/3 in the up andSN19/18/17 on the
TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FOR BRITAIN’S OLDEST WORKING SIGNAL BOX Delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic mean that a re-signalling project on Teesside due to be completed this month (September 2020) has slipped to early next year, granting a stay of execution to Britain’s oldest working signal box. Re-signalling a 4½-mile stretch of the Durham Coast Line from north of Stockton-on-Tees toBillingham has been
BRITAIN’S LAST CO-ACTING SEMAPHORES Britain’s last co-acting semaphores. Co-acting signals were once a fairly common feature of our railways, but are now an endangered species. There are only three remaining examples on the national network, of which one will disappear early next year and another is threatened by potential electrification and re-signalling. HUMBERSIDE’S SEMAPHORE SWANSONG Humberside’s semaphore swansong. Rail-borne visitors to the UK’s 2017 city of culture could probably be forgiven for failing to spot during the latter stages of their journey what many enthusiasts would describe as some of the finest remaining semaphore signalling in England. It survives on a 9.5 mile stretch of line between Gilberdyke WHERRY LINES’ CLASS 37 FAREWELL Wherry Lines’ Class 37 farewell. Any day now the wonderful sight and sound of Class 37s top-and-tailing two or three coaches on services between Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft will finally come to an end, as the new Stadler Class 755 bi-mode units enter service. For the past five years, the chance to travel behind the 1960s vintageRAILWAYWORLD.NET
Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
AN ISLAND OF SEMAPHORES IN NORTH WALES An island of semaphores in North Wales. Completion of a project to re-signal 50 miles of the North Wales Main Line in Spring 2018 means that anyone travelling along the coast by rail towards Holyhead will now wait until reaching the Isle of Anglesey before encountering any semaphore signalling. Once on the island, though, there are four TWO NOTABLE MARCHES LINE SIGNAL BOXES Among 14 signal boxes controlling the busy Marches Line between Shrewsbury and Newport, two of the finest and most historic survivors are identical LNWR/GW joint designs at Leominster and at nearby Woofferton Junction (seen above) both believed to date from 1875. The Marches Line remains a charming outpost of mechanical signalling, and despite last year’s GLOUCESTERSHIRE STEAM IN THE 1960S CONSIDERABLE interest was aroused by the account I published last week of my late father’s 1961 rail travels in Wales so, for what will hopefully prove to be one of my final lockdown retrospectives, this is a look through his lens at steam action in Gloucestershire during the early 1960s. As in Wales, closures across DISTANT DELIGHTS IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMR 158856 passes the 1981 Uttoxeter Signal Box with 1K19 from Derby (15.42) to Crewe. For those unfamiliar with the North Staffordshire Line, this 35-mile link between Stoke-on-Trent and Derby is a sleepy and pleasantly rural double-track route that sees hourly passenger services and only the very occasional non-passenger service, usually SEMAPHORES IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMT 153319 passes Scropton Crossing on 25 March 2017 with a Derby-bound service. Scropton Crossing is a rather delightful spot, where a North Staffordshire Railway box dating from 1884 controls a little-used road crossing and has six semaphores, with distant, home and section signals in each direction (SN1/2/3 in the up andSN19/18/17 on the
TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FOR BRITAIN’S OLDEST WORKING SIGNAL BOX Delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic mean that a re-signalling project on Teesside due to be completed this month (September 2020) has slipped to early next year, granting a stay of execution to Britain’s oldest working signal box. Re-signalling a 4½-mile stretch of the Durham Coast Line from north of Stockton-on-Tees toBillingham has been
BRITAIN’S LAST CO-ACTING SEMAPHORES Britain’s last co-acting semaphores. Co-acting signals were once a fairly common feature of our railways, but are now an endangered species. There are only three remaining examples on the national network, of which one will disappear early next year and another is threatened by potential electrification and re-signalling. HUMBERSIDE’S SEMAPHORE SWANSONG Humberside’s semaphore swansong. Rail-borne visitors to the UK’s 2017 city of culture could probably be forgiven for failing to spot during the latter stages of their journey what many enthusiasts would describe as some of the finest remaining semaphore signalling in England. It survives on a 9.5 mile stretch of line between Gilberdyke WHERRY LINES’ CLASS 37 FAREWELL Wherry Lines’ Class 37 farewell. Any day now the wonderful sight and sound of Class 37s top-and-tailing two or three coaches on services between Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft will finally come to an end, as the new Stadler Class 755 bi-mode units enter service. For the past five years, the chance to travel behind the 1960s vintageBONNY BLAIR ATHOLL
Spending a weekend at Pitlochry meant the chance for a Saturday (5 June 2021) visit to delightful Blair Atholl, one of the remotest stations on the Highland Main Line, and one of the route’s remaining outposts of mechanical signalling. Blair Atholl’s attractive 1890-vintage McKenzie & Holland signal box stands just south of thestation and
FIVE YEARS OF LOST SEMAPHORES FIVE YEARS after I began touring Britain in search of surviving semaphores to describe and photograph for my planned book seems like a timely moment to take a look back at the many places which have lost their mechanical signalling in that time. While there are still some wonderful outposts of mechanical signalling, a considerable BRITAIN’S OLDEST SIGNAL BOXES Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
SUMMER OF ’62 ON THE SOMERSET & DORSET A view looking west from the S&D platform at Templecombe on 4 August 1962 (above) with Midland Railway 4F 0-6-0 44102 standing among the lines of freight wagons. My father Trefor was a prolific correspondent with our local newspaper, the “Gloucestershire Echo” on the subject of rail closures. This letter, dated 8 June 1962, sets out his TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FOR BRITAIN’S OLDEST WORKING SIGNAL BOX Delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic mean that a re-signalling project on Teesside due to be completed this month (September 2020) has slipped to early next year, granting a stay of execution to Britain’s oldest working signal box. Re-signalling a 4½-mile stretch of the Durham Coast Line from north of Stockton-on-Tees toBillingham has been
SEMAPHORES IN SOUTH-WEST SCOTLAND Semaphores in south-west Scotland. After last year’s return to Stranraer Harbour, it is time to pay another visit to south-west Scotland and to the four southernmost outposts of mechanical signalling on the Glasgow & South Western main line between Glasgow and Carlisle. Three of the quartet are Glasgow & South Western Railway(G&SWR) designs
A TRIP ON THE NEW-LOOK GOBLIN A fleet of 18 dual-voltage four-car units has been built by Bombardier for operation of GOBLIN and the Euston-Watford services (710256-273), of which six are required to maintain the seven-days-a-week, 15-minute frequency, of GOBLIN services. 710258 waits in platform 1 at Barking on 30 October 2019 with the 12.48 to Gospel Oak. NARROW GAUGE DELIGHTS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC The last remaining 760mm line operated by CD is a quite remarkable survival. It is a 20km (12.5 mile) line from a junction station in a village called Třemešná ve Slezsku to a small town called Osoblaha traversing a narrow rural peninsula of the Czech Republic jutting into neighbouring Poland. The line opened in 1898, principally to serve a A LOOK AT THE FUTURE OF SIGNALLING IN WALES A look at the future of signalling in Wales. Eight years after its opening in October 2010, the £16.5 million Wales Railway Operating Centre (WROC) is really starting to come into its own, as more and more of the Principality’s network falls under its control. Situated in an anonymous and highly-fortified building, surrounded by razorwire
GHOST TRAIN TO NEWHAVEN MARINE A little over 15 minutes later this “ghost train” pulls out of Marine station past the station’s starting signal NH35 – the last semaphore signal anywhere in this area – and returns empty stock to Brighton. It is a particularly British approach to railways that pretends Newhaven Marine station isRAILWAYWORLD.NET
Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
AN ISLAND OF SEMAPHORES IN NORTH WALES An island of semaphores in North Wales. Completion of a project to re-signal 50 miles of the North Wales Main Line in Spring 2018 means that anyone travelling along the coast by rail towards Holyhead will now wait until reaching the Isle of Anglesey before encountering any semaphore signalling. Once on the island, though, there are four TWO NOTABLE MARCHES LINE SIGNAL BOXES Among 14 signal boxes controlling the busy Marches Line between Shrewsbury and Newport, two of the finest and most historic survivors are identical LNWR/GW joint designs at Leominster and at nearby Woofferton Junction (seen above) both believed to date from 1875. The Marches Line remains a charming outpost of mechanical signalling, and despite last year’s GLOUCESTERSHIRE STEAM IN THE 1960S CONSIDERABLE interest was aroused by the account I published last week of my late father’s 1961 rail travels in Wales so, for what will hopefully prove to be one of my final lockdown retrospectives, this is a look through his lens at steam action in Gloucestershire during the early 1960s. As in Wales, closures across DISTANT DELIGHTS IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMR 158856 passes the 1981 Uttoxeter Signal Box with 1K19 from Derby (15.42) to Crewe. For those unfamiliar with the North Staffordshire Line, this 35-mile link between Stoke-on-Trent and Derby is a sleepy and pleasantly rural double-track route that sees hourly passenger services and only the very occasional non-passenger service, usually SEMAPHORES IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMT 153319 passes Scropton Crossing on 25 March 2017 with a Derby-bound service. Scropton Crossing is a rather delightful spot, where a North Staffordshire Railway box dating from 1884 controls a little-used road crossing and has six semaphores, with distant, home and section signals in each direction (SN1/2/3 in the up andSN19/18/17 on the
TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FOR BRITAIN’S OLDEST WORKING SIGNAL BOX Delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic mean that a re-signalling project on Teesside due to be completed this month (September 2020) has slipped to early next year, granting a stay of execution to Britain’s oldest working signal box. Re-signalling a 4½-mile stretch of the Durham Coast Line from north of Stockton-on-Tees toBillingham has been
BRITAIN’S LAST CO-ACTING SEMAPHORES Britain’s last co-acting semaphores. Co-acting signals were once a fairly common feature of our railways, but are now an endangered species. There are only three remaining examples on the national network, of which one will disappear early next year and another is threatened by potential electrification and re-signalling. HUMBERSIDE’S SEMAPHORE SWANSONG Humberside’s semaphore swansong. Rail-borne visitors to the UK’s 2017 city of culture could probably be forgiven for failing to spot during the latter stages of their journey what many enthusiasts would describe as some of the finest remaining semaphore signalling in England. It survives on a 9.5 mile stretch of line between Gilberdyke WHERRY LINES’ CLASS 37 FAREWELL Wherry Lines’ Class 37 farewell. Any day now the wonderful sight and sound of Class 37s top-and-tailing two or three coaches on services between Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft will finally come to an end, as the new Stadler Class 755 bi-mode units enter service. For the past five years, the chance to travel behind the 1960s vintageRAILWAYWORLD.NET
Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
AN ISLAND OF SEMAPHORES IN NORTH WALES An island of semaphores in North Wales. Completion of a project to re-signal 50 miles of the North Wales Main Line in Spring 2018 means that anyone travelling along the coast by rail towards Holyhead will now wait until reaching the Isle of Anglesey before encountering any semaphore signalling. Once on the island, though, there are four TWO NOTABLE MARCHES LINE SIGNAL BOXES Among 14 signal boxes controlling the busy Marches Line between Shrewsbury and Newport, two of the finest and most historic survivors are identical LNWR/GW joint designs at Leominster and at nearby Woofferton Junction (seen above) both believed to date from 1875. The Marches Line remains a charming outpost of mechanical signalling, and despite last year’s GLOUCESTERSHIRE STEAM IN THE 1960S CONSIDERABLE interest was aroused by the account I published last week of my late father’s 1961 rail travels in Wales so, for what will hopefully prove to be one of my final lockdown retrospectives, this is a look through his lens at steam action in Gloucestershire during the early 1960s. As in Wales, closures across DISTANT DELIGHTS IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMR 158856 passes the 1981 Uttoxeter Signal Box with 1K19 from Derby (15.42) to Crewe. For those unfamiliar with the North Staffordshire Line, this 35-mile link between Stoke-on-Trent and Derby is a sleepy and pleasantly rural double-track route that sees hourly passenger services and only the very occasional non-passenger service, usually SEMAPHORES IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE EMT 153319 passes Scropton Crossing on 25 March 2017 with a Derby-bound service. Scropton Crossing is a rather delightful spot, where a North Staffordshire Railway box dating from 1884 controls a little-used road crossing and has six semaphores, with distant, home and section signals in each direction (SN1/2/3 in the up andSN19/18/17 on the
TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FOR BRITAIN’S OLDEST WORKING SIGNAL BOX Delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic mean that a re-signalling project on Teesside due to be completed this month (September 2020) has slipped to early next year, granting a stay of execution to Britain’s oldest working signal box. Re-signalling a 4½-mile stretch of the Durham Coast Line from north of Stockton-on-Tees toBillingham has been
BRITAIN’S LAST CO-ACTING SEMAPHORES Britain’s last co-acting semaphores. Co-acting signals were once a fairly common feature of our railways, but are now an endangered species. There are only three remaining examples on the national network, of which one will disappear early next year and another is threatened by potential electrification and re-signalling. HUMBERSIDE’S SEMAPHORE SWANSONG Humberside’s semaphore swansong. Rail-borne visitors to the UK’s 2017 city of culture could probably be forgiven for failing to spot during the latter stages of their journey what many enthusiasts would describe as some of the finest remaining semaphore signalling in England. It survives on a 9.5 mile stretch of line between Gilberdyke WHERRY LINES’ CLASS 37 FAREWELL Wherry Lines’ Class 37 farewell. Any day now the wonderful sight and sound of Class 37s top-and-tailing two or three coaches on services between Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft will finally come to an end, as the new Stadler Class 755 bi-mode units enter service. For the past five years, the chance to travel behind the 1960s vintageBONNY BLAIR ATHOLL
Spending a weekend at Pitlochry meant the chance for a Saturday (5 June 2021) visit to delightful Blair Atholl, one of the remotest stations on the Highland Main Line, and one of the route’s remaining outposts of mechanical signalling. Blair Atholl’s attractive 1890-vintage McKenzie & Holland signal box stands just south of thestation and
FIVE YEARS OF LOST SEMAPHORES FIVE YEARS after I began touring Britain in search of surviving semaphores to describe and photograph for my planned book seems like a timely moment to take a look back at the many places which have lost their mechanical signalling in that time. While there are still some wonderful outposts of mechanical signalling, a considerable BRITAIN’S OLDEST SIGNAL BOXES Britain’s oldest signal boxes. After 150 years of faithful service, the 1870-vintage North Eastern Railway signal box at Norton South signalled its last service on Friday (5 February 2021), and the network’s oldest working signal box closed to await its fate and likely demolition. The final up service to pass the doomed box wasNorthern
SUMMER OF ’62 ON THE SOMERSET & DORSET A view looking west from the S&D platform at Templecombe on 4 August 1962 (above) with Midland Railway 4F 0-6-0 44102 standing among the lines of freight wagons. My father Trefor was a prolific correspondent with our local newspaper, the “Gloucestershire Echo” on the subject of rail closures. This letter, dated 8 June 1962, sets out his TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FOR BRITAIN’S OLDEST WORKING SIGNAL BOX Delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic mean that a re-signalling project on Teesside due to be completed this month (September 2020) has slipped to early next year, granting a stay of execution to Britain’s oldest working signal box. Re-signalling a 4½-mile stretch of the Durham Coast Line from north of Stockton-on-Tees toBillingham has been
SEMAPHORES IN SOUTH-WEST SCOTLAND Semaphores in south-west Scotland. After last year’s return to Stranraer Harbour, it is time to pay another visit to south-west Scotland and to the four southernmost outposts of mechanical signalling on the Glasgow & South Western main line between Glasgow and Carlisle. Three of the quartet are Glasgow & South Western Railway(G&SWR) designs
A TRIP ON THE NEW-LOOK GOBLIN A fleet of 18 dual-voltage four-car units has been built by Bombardier for operation of GOBLIN and the Euston-Watford services (710256-273), of which six are required to maintain the seven-days-a-week, 15-minute frequency, of GOBLIN services. 710258 waits in platform 1 at Barking on 30 October 2019 with the 12.48 to Gospel Oak. NARROW GAUGE DELIGHTS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC The last remaining 760mm line operated by CD is a quite remarkable survival. It is a 20km (12.5 mile) line from a junction station in a village called Třemešná ve Slezsku to a small town called Osoblaha traversing a narrow rural peninsula of the Czech Republic jutting into neighbouring Poland. The line opened in 1898, principally to serve a A LOOK AT THE FUTURE OF SIGNALLING IN WALES A look at the future of signalling in Wales. Eight years after its opening in October 2010, the £16.5 million Wales Railway Operating Centre (WROC) is really starting to come into its own, as more and more of the Principality’s network falls under its control. Situated in an anonymous and highly-fortified building, surrounded by razorwire
GHOST TRAIN TO NEWHAVEN MARINE A little over 15 minutes later this “ghost train” pulls out of Marine station past the station’s starting signal NH35 – the last semaphore signal anywhere in this area – and returns empty stock to Brighton. It is a particularly British approach to railways that pretends Newhaven Marine station isAdvertisements
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GARETH’S NEXT BOOK – OUT NOW! Pen & Sword Transport – ISBN: 9781526714732 https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Britains-Last-Mechanical-Signalling-Hardback/p/16355 Almost a century after the first colour light signals appeared on Britain’s railways in the early 1920s there are still a considerable number of places where the passage of trains is controlled by the Victorian technology of a signaller in a signal box pulling a mechanical lever that will tug up to ¾ mile of wire that then moves a signal arm up or down. Replacement of mechanical signalling has been going on in earnest since the 1960s and continues apace, with losses over the past couple of years at Blackpool, North Wales, Humberside, and at a number of locations in Scotland. Next to go will be the delightful Wherry Lines between Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. Continue reading “Gareth’s next book – out now!” Author railwayworld53Posted on April 22,
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A SCENIC WALK OVER THE FIRTH OF FORTH Having been to the same school as one of the two engineers who designed it (Sir Benjamin Baker), I have always had a special affection for what, three years ago, was voted Scotland’s greatest man-made wonder, the truly remarkable and iconic Forth Bridge. Travelling over it by train on a clear day gives fantastic view of the Firth of Forth looking east and the two road bridges to the west, but it is only by walking over the original Forth Road Bridge that you can fully appreciate its magnificence. Continue reading “A scenic walk over the Firth of Forth”Advertisements
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BRITAIN’S MOST NORTHERLY SEMAPHORES After recent visits to Britain’s most south-westerly semaphores (St. Erth) and our most easterly (Lowestoft), another bargain-price Scotrail _Club 50_ £17.00 flat fare offer gave me the chance to pay a welcome return visit to our most northerly outposts of mechanical signalling. Unlike St Erth and Lowestoft, Keith Junction has only enjoyed its geographic accolade for the past two years. It took the honour from Elgin, the next station westwards along the Aberdeen-Inverness route when a re-signalling exercise, completed in October 2017, led to elimination of both Elgin West and Forres signal boxes. Continue reading “Britain’s most northerly semaphores” Author railwayworld53Posted on November
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THE END IS NIGH AT YARMOUTH VAUXHALL Grandest of the seven surviving signal boxes along the Wherry Lines from Norwich to Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft must surely be Yarmouth Vauxhall, a Great Eastern Railway type 4 Design that dates from 1884 and boasts a 63-lever Saxby & Farmer frame. Unlike many other historic signal boxes, its appearance has not been ruined by the replacement of traditional glazing with ugly uPVC windows. But its days are sadly numbered and its levers will be pulled for the last time less than three months from now, for the 23.34 service to Norwich on Friday, 31 January 2020. Continue reading “The end is nigh at Yarmouth Vauxhall” Author railwayworld53 Posted on November 6,2019
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A TRIP ON THE NEW-LOOK GOBLIN After what seemed like an interminable wait, users of the North London orbital rail service linking Gospel Oak with Barking finally have the train-set and services they have been waiting for, and a good service it seems too. The 13-mile long GOBLIN route was long-regarded as one of those Cinderella services that suffered from old, inadequate and unreliable rolling stock, as other parts of the London Overground network got new, longer and more frequent trains, and saw passenger numbers leap. Continue reading “A trip on the new-look GOBLIN” Author railwayworld53 Posted on November 1, 2019November 1, 2019Categories
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Comment on A trip on the new-look GOBLIN SUN AND SEMAPHORES ON THE SOUTH COAST Two remarkable outposts of mechanical signalling are the neighbouring West Sussex resorts of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, which have somehow outlived a re-signalling of the Mid-Sussex Linesouth of Horsham.
That 2014 exercise saw the elimination of signal boxes at Billingshurst, Pulborough and Amberley, but left the two coastal termini untouched and consequently stuck in a delightful time-warp, as seen in the following photos taken on 22 October 2019. Continue reading “Sun and semaphores on the South Coast” Author railwayworld53 Posted on October 28, 2019October 28, 2019Categories
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BRITAIN’S LAST CO-ACTING SEMAPHORES Co-acting signals were once a fairly common feature of our railways, but are now an endangered species. There are only three remaining examples on the national network, of which one will disappear early next year and another is threatened by potential electrification and re-signalling. These duplicate signals were installed where a driver’s sighting of a signal was adversely affected by a curve in the line, or by an intervening over-bridge or other obstruction, as this photo-tour of Britain’s surviving trio – Cantley, Helsby and Greenloaning – will hopefully illustrate. Continue reading “Britain’s last co-acting semaphores” Author railwayworld53 Posted on October 25, 2019October 25, 2019Categories
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WHERRY LINES CLASS 66 AND 755 ACTION Paying a return visit to the Wherry Lines, principally to photograph Cantley’s famous co-acting signal, it was good to see more evidence of the new Class 755 units than on my visit to Lowestoft at the beginning of the month. After the ending of Class 37 operations it was also good to see some loco action on my 23 October 2019 visit, in the shape of a Class 66-worked Railhead Treatment Train (RHTT) operating its seasonal circuit from Stowmarket. Continue reading “Wherry Lines Class 66 and755 action”
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