SandTEngineers Spot the Railway Location Photograph Quiz

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[stuving]

Thanks for posting that photograph BNM.  The viaduct I was stood on is just off the left hand top corner.  The tunnel entrance used in the final film scenes is just by the round brick structure to the middle right.  A classic and iconic film that one is 

Edit to add: Also carefully note that the lines immediately behind 'Mrs. Wilberforces house' led up from the right hand side of my photograph, over the Kings Cross lines to Caledonian Road coal yard sidings on the NLL.  This also involved a reversal just to the right of the colour photograph you posted, and over the aforementioned tunnel.  There was a lot of railway around there in the past....

There certainly was a lot of railway ... for a start only half of those sidings is shown in your picture. The line to the NLR/NLL goods depot was about the middle of the out-of-shot part, and led into a siding at this end too; in effect requiring a second reversal.

The same old maps also show that Frederica Street used to be Frederick Street and was four times longer (i.e. reaching down to the railway lines). It must have had its name changed when it was demolished, and most of its alignment abandoned, in the 1970s.

[SandTEngineer]

No.16

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[JayMac]

Chesham, Metropolitan Line.

[SandTEngineer]

Chesham, Metropolitan Line.

No.16 - Correct
Photograph taken in late 1969.  Looking towards Chesham station on the Metropolitan Line.  At that time the station still had its Main Platform (8 Car length to the middle), Bay Platform (4 car length to the left) and Stabling Siding (8 car length to the right).  The latter was formerly the run round loop.  The bay platform was only added in 1960.  The goods yard was beyond the station in the distance, but had been closed by time of this photograph.  The signalbox was still open at the time and the last mechanical signal on the London Underground can just be made out to the right leading from the run round loop.  One thing I lament about Chesham is that I was there once when the goods yard track was being lifted (think it was 1967/8ish) and the engineering train was hauled by one of the ex-GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) 57XX Pannier Tank locomotives.  Didn't have a camera then........

[SandTEngineer]

No.17

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[bobm]

Westbury?

[AMLAG]

17 = Westbury North end
         A loaded stone train from Merehead Quarry is stabled in the distance formed of either 27 Ton ex Iron Ore Tipplers or 21 Ton ex Coal Hoppers, in the early (1970's) days of this traffic from Merehead Quarry and before the advent of Foster Yeoman and its successors, acquiring their own wagons.

[SandTEngineer]

Westbury?

No.17 – Correct
Photograph taken in 1970.  Westbury station looking North.  In the distance (after the overbridge) the lines to the left head towards Trowbridge and the lines to the right head towards Reading.  The signal is of the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) 1942 pattern.  This type of signal was introduced during WW2 due to the lack of suitable timber imports.  All the posts and the bracket are made of steel.  The fact that the cantilever is arched and the arm posts are both offset to the same side from the main post distinguish it so.  The two distant arms are motor operated (the motors in the boxes just below the arms).  The left-hand distant arm was worked by Hawkeridge signalbox and the right-hand distant arm was worked by Heywood Road Junction signalbox.

Note in the 4ft ahead of the signal is an original GWR Automatic Train Control (ATC^▸ (Automatic Train Control)) ramp.  This was the predecessor to our current Automatic Warning System (AWS^▸ (Automatic Warning System - an arrangement of permanent magnets and electro-magnets that convey information about the associated signal to the train driver)).  The ATC ramps were all replaced by AWS ramps during the mid-1970s.

The signalbox to the right was the 99 lever Westbury North which controlled everything at this end of the station.  Westbury station had four platforms at that time (two Down direction and two Up Direction) although reversing movements could take place in all four platforms.  On 16 September 1978 Westbury Middle and Westbury South signalboxes at the other end of the station were closed and a panel to control that area was installed in Westbury North signalbox and commissioned on 09 October 1978.  Westbury North signalbox closed on 11 May 1984 and the whole station area was remodelled and controlled from the new panel signalbox just to the right of the old signalbox.

[SandTEngineer]

No.18

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[JayMac]

Golant LC^▸ (Level Crossing) (open), Fowey branch, Cornwall.

[Oxonhutch]

Re No. 17. The pictured signals appear to contain some history of the junction ahead. The arms for both routes are at the same height, and this matches the 30 mph speed limit sign below with arrows left and right. But in the past, the left-hand route was the faster one as its arms have moved down the left-hand doll by about 18".  I suspect the speed of the London route had been raised at some time.

[SandTEngineer]

Golant LC^▸ (Level Crossing) (open), Fowey branch, Cornwall.

No.18 – Correct
Photograph taken in 2006. Looking out to the river Fowey from Golant open level crossing on the Lostwithiel to Carne Point (Fowey) freight line. This type of level crossing usually doesn’t have any form of warning for road users, but due to the unusual location and line curvature a warning bell was added (later a yodelalarm) too assist road users and pedestrians.  I can assure you that the risk of ending up in the river on the other side of the crossing is very real as the road goes straight down into the river…….

[SandTEngineer]

No.19

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[onthecushions]

Marlow?

(From lamps and building)

OTC

[Electric train]

Marlow?

(From lamps and building)

OTC

I agree Marlow 1972?  I have some photos of this event somewhere