June Quiz - Day 3

I agree with Phil.

Kensington (Olympia), Q Stock, and ... well I am sure it's not Kensington South Main signalbox, so is it Kensington North Main box? The 'box sign was maroon with white lettering I think.

I am sure that this is a late Sixties shot, as the footbridge is there, and I remember it from the Motorail days. Unless it's the Q Stock farewell tour of 1971 but that had a headboard.

Corrected myself. I was trying to work out whether I had seen the South box further down the line or not. There was also apparently Kensington Middle Box that closed in 1958. The late Mr Frederick W Brooks wrote:

Sometimes I had to attend a signalling engineers occupation [of the track] in order to act as 'groundsman' or 'hand signalman'. One such occupation, which lasted continuously from Sunday, 9 February to Sunday, 23 February 1958, took place at Kensington. At Kensington South, which was quite a large signalbox, the London and North Western type of lever frame of many levers was completely taken out and replaced with a new Great Western type of lever frame, together with completely new instrument shelf with new British Rail block instruments. While the big job was being carried out there were over twenty relief signalmen and signalmen required for hand signalling and the setting of points by hand. Each time the points were set for the necessary routes for a train they were clipped and pad-locked, which is the normal procedure when points are disconnected from a signalbox. Half of us worked twelve hours days and the other half worked twelve hours nights. I was on twelve hours days, 8 am to 8 pm for every day until the job was finished. I was situated at Kensington South Down Main Home Signal and was provided with a hut to protect from weather. Trains would stop at the signal and I would get in touch with the person in charge, to ascertain when I could show the green handsignal to the driver so that he could proceed. Temporary telephones were provided to enable handsignalmen and those at points to be in touch with those in charge. The persons in charge, one on nights and one on days, were in the Kensington South signalbox and were, I think, relief signalmen, 'special class'. During this period, two signalboxes were done away with, Kensington Middle and Earls Court Junction, so the layout, points and signals, in the Kensington area had to be rearranged.

A quick question if I may

On the overbridge what does it say before Terminal please?

Thanks Seth! That was quick (............for a MA ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D )