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Post by slugabed on Nov 15, 2009 23:27:57 GMT
It seems that the semaphore signals on the Goblin,by Harringay Pk Jct are no more......
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Post by mrfs42 on Nov 16, 2009 0:54:06 GMT
Thoroughly trashed by the decommissioning crew. ISTR that it is the end of the 'velcro' block working too. The 'velcro' block, which acted as Absolute Block on both lines between Upper Holloway and South Tottenham when Harringay Park Junction was closed: but with a sign attached by velcro to cover the pegging indicator acted as a non-pegger only when Harringay Park Junction was open - the other direction being Track Circuit Block.  NB: a 'pegger' says yes/no You can/can't send me that train ; a 'non-pegger' repeats the decision. |
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Post by Oracle on Nov 16, 2009 7:29:09 GMT
www.roscalen.com/signals/HarringayParkJct/index.htmRIP! Have they been replaced by colour lights then or has the junction been dispensed-with? That just leaves Greenford and the sempahores at Willesden Carriage Shed North/South that are near any Underground lines now. I just wish I still had my slides that I took of the dismantling of the Gunnersbury-Richmond sempahores one weeken in 1980/1..regrettably when I was there on the Saturday that had been taken-down already.
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Post by slugabed on Nov 16, 2009 9:04:03 GMT
Colour lights have been installed.
It's part of the Goblin upgrade,so I s'pose it's a good thing,but all the same,it's a real shame to see the old semaphores go......
In the London area,as well as those you mentioned,there's still the Dudding Hill line with semaphores,and are they still in the South Acton/Kew/Brentford area?
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Post by Oracle on Nov 16, 2009 9:56:31 GMT
I think both locations still have sempahores? I have seen photos of the Willesden signals...the location appears to be a real 'backwater'.
OTT we still have two gantries and two single semaphores at Marchwood station site on the local Fawley, ex-Hythe branch. Plus two hand-operated LCs.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2009 14:22:40 GMT
There's still a junction bracket at Kew East controlling moves from South Acton onto the Hounslow loop. That's the last one in that area. Sadly neither distant arm is operational and the starter arms are motor driven. Beggars? Choosers? You know the quote!
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Post by Oracle on Nov 16, 2009 14:29:35 GMT
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Post by slugabed on Nov 16, 2009 14:36:37 GMT
Thanks for the info and links......
I recently had to go to Moreton-in-Marsh station......it was like sxtepping back in time.....Lovely!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2009 22:26:01 GMT
A shame... I hope the posts and equipment went to good homes, rather than just being chopped into small bits, mangled and chucked in a skip.
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Post by slugabed on Nov 16, 2009 22:52:07 GMT
I hope so,too.....preferably a preaserved line somewhere.
Looking out of the train window this afternoon,there was literally NO TRACE of where the signals had been....no stumps,no holes in the ground,nothing,so I presume they were cut off flush with the ground and carted off intact.
The only reminder was the white contrast board West of Crouch Hill station....
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Post by Oracle on Nov 17, 2009 10:01:52 GMT
When I enquired about the whereabouts of the ex-Richmond branch semaphores from the signalling offices at Feltham, they said that they went 'into stores' i.e. to be re-used. I do hope that the engineers managed to ensure that components could be re-used, though I fear that they might have just been junked.
I take it that GE29, the Greenford Bay starter is still there?
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Post by geebeezed on Nov 19, 2009 10:15:19 GMT
Hmm, I'm going to go against the trend & welcome the arrival of some decent signalling at last! Many's the evening we sat on various Semaphores & waited for whatever was ahead to clear the section back when I was based at Temple Mills... Even longer when Harringay park was switched out! One of the Distants not far from H.P had packed up as well, so we were forever having to creep along looking for the tiny & dim Red light on the next section!
I wouldn't worry about the equipment, theres a waiting list as long as yer arm (pun intended) for AB kit & semaphores from preserved railways and other regions alike! Its a valuable commodity these days... It made me happy to see quite a bit of the old Searchlight equipment off the WAGN and Clacton lines being taken into preservation as well... After all, a lot of it was older than many Semaphore signals!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2009 12:21:30 GMT
That having been said, when Fenny Compton (between Banbury and Leamington) was resignalled about five or six years ago the semaphores were all chucked into skips. The signal arms (including the GWR ones from the Goods loop) had bulldozers driven over them to stop anyone saving them. The only survivor was a ground signal mechanism that sat in the undergrowth next to the Kineton branch for a few months with no signal on it until that, too, disappeared.
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