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Title: AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes Post by: grahame on December 22, 2023, 05:39:08 1.
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/aq23_psb1.jpg) 2. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/aq23_psb2.jpg) 3. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/aq23_psb3.jpg) 4. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/aq23_psb4.jpg) Title: Re: AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes Post by: Andy E on December 22, 2023, 07:26:25 1. Cowley Bridge?
Title: Re: AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes Post by: bradshaw on December 22, 2023, 07:38:35 2 Par
Title: Re: AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes Post by: Oxonhutch on December 22, 2023, 08:08:42 3: Douglas, IOM
Title: Re: AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes Post by: rogerpatenall on December 22, 2023, 11:35:51 1 Blatchbridge?
Title: Re: AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes Post by: grahame on December 22, 2023, 14:40:26 Correct so far:
1. Cowley Bridge 2. Par 3. Douglas, IOM Just no. 4 to answer. Title: Re: AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes Post by: bradshaw on December 22, 2023, 16:53:40 4 Wendover
Title: Re: AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes Post by: stuving on December 22, 2023, 23:49:36 4 Wendover It's as well the page wasn't headed "where are these?", because while Google has no trouble finding it (on The Signal Box website, which I guess is where that picture came from) in real life it would be harder. Its site is now a narrow strip between the railway just north of Wendover station and the A413. There's a personal reminiscence of working there with the picture (https://signalbox.org/branch-lines/lets-wend-over-to-wendover/), ending with: Quote Eventually management decided enough was enough and reduced the peak hour service to run every twenty minutes, so the box could be permanently switched out. It was abolished on the 1st of July, 1984. Recently, a new bypass has been driven through the field that was behind the box. I made a point of driving that way one day to see how the transformed landscape looked. I expected to see no sign of the box, as the bypass is right next to the railway at that point. Astonishingly, the new railway boundary fence suddenly moves nearer the bypass for a few yards, skirting the foundations of the box which for some reason still remain. Now, like most other railway borders, it's overgrown with trees so you can't see anything. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |