| AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes Posted by grahame at 05:39, 22nd December 2023 |     |
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| Re: AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes Posted by Andy E at 07:26, 22nd December 2023 | |
1. Cowley Bridge?
| Re: AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes Posted by bradshaw at 07:38, 22nd December 2023 | |
2 Par
| Re: AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes Posted by Oxonhutch at 08:08, 22nd December 2023 | |
3: Douglas, IOM
| Re: AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes Posted by rogerpatenall at 11:35, 22nd December 2023 | |
1 Blatchbridge?
| Re: AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes Posted by grahame at 14:40, 22nd December 2023 | |
Correct so far:
1. Cowley Bridge
2. Par
3. Douglas, IOM
Just no. 4 to answer.
| Re: AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes Posted by bradshaw at 16:53, 22nd December 2023 | |
4 Wendover
| Re: AQ23 - 22nd December - Signal Boxes Posted by stuving at 23:49, 22nd December 2023 | |
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, ending with:
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.
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.
