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IRSE Minor Railways Section
Registrace 30. 01. 2021
Videos covering heritage signalling and telecommunications related items of interest from minor and heritage railways
Sarnau Signalbox,Scolton Manor Park
Down in south Wales 🏴 lies the beautiful coastal region of Pembrokeshire and within the local area lies the Scolton Manor Park, a heritage and environmental tourist attraction including a south wales beekeeping establishment, a large park and a local history exhibit with both an old 060 Great Western locomotive and the ex Sarnau Signalbox now relocated to the park as an active museum.
We’re indebted to mark the parks warden upon our visit for showing us around both the park and the exhibits and letting us see the cabin and walking us a little about the parks plans including an interactive exhibit upstairs in the box which is planned to show the public the history of the cabin.
The museum xhibits are maintained by a group called the “Steam Team” who have plans to add more industrial exhibits as time allows.
So I’d recommend visiting if you can, whilst the park is open daily it’s main season is April to September and there is a cafe and toilet facilities on site as well as a Large play area and the park and Manor House too.
We’re indebted to mark the parks warden upon our visit for showing us around both the park and the exhibits and letting us see the cabin and walking us a little about the parks plans including an interactive exhibit upstairs in the box which is planned to show the public the history of the cabin.
The museum xhibits are maintained by a group called the “Steam Team” who have plans to add more industrial exhibits as time allows.
So I’d recommend visiting if you can, whilst the park is open daily it’s main season is April to September and there is a cafe and toilet facilities on site as well as a Large play area and the park and Manor House too.
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Gainsborough Model Railway layout
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We visit the layout of the Gainsborough Model Railway Society at Gainsborough to see their East Coast railway layout in O gauge based on the periods between 1940 and 1970 with nearly a mile of track in total running around multiple rooms in this ex Victorian school building bought by the club when they moved from Their original location in the early 1950s in the town. Our special thanks to all ...
Consall Signalbox following restoration works 2023
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A little video showing some of the restoration work undertaken by the volunteers at the Churnet Valley Railway upon the Signalbox at Consall on the railways passing loop.
Bolton Abbey (a work in progress)
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We take a look at the signalling in progress at the terminus of the Embsay and Bolton Abbey railway land line and see both the current and the planned works to bring the dear lights and power frame eventually into use. Our thanks goes to Peter Burke for showing us around the site and letting us see what’s there and what work is ongoing.
The Lancashire Museum of Mining (Part 2 Stewart’s Story)
This video (part two) takes a look at the life of a miner, told by Stewart, one of the volunteers at the Lancashire Museum of Mining . Stewart spent all his working life mining for coal and diamonds and here he is explaining to visitors the life of a miner , health safety and the working conditions. Filmed in 2024. With grateful thanks to the volunteers and staff at the Lancashire museum of min...
The Lancashire Museum of Mining (Astley Green)
In this video ( a big two parter) we take a look at the Lancashire Museum of Mining , based in Astley Green Manchester which operated as a working pit till 1970, in part one we see the main winding engine and get up close and personal on how it worked as well as a little run on the railway that operates here too. Part two takes a look at the miners itself and Stewart tells us about his life in ...
Sheffield Park Museum collection
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For a change we visit the museum on platform 2 at Sheffield Park station upon the Bluebell Railway. The museum is free to enter and includes a demonstration cabin outside which is open on good weather days.. WITHYHAM We’d also like to note that there are clips playing in the background of the video as part of the museums interactive exhibit which include sound bites from a BTF transport film fo...
Crawley Signalbox
It’s May 2024 and the Signalbox at Crawley south of London is having its third open day of the year, so we had to pay it a visit and have a look at how the volunteers of the Crawley Signalbox Preservation Society have been restoring , presenting and displaying the London Brighton & South coast Railway cabin since they first saved it back in the 1990s after it was made redundant by BR back in 19...
A Tale of One Bridge (WILMINGTON SWINGBRIDGE)
The city of Hull,England is separated by the river Hull, with many of the railway stations being upon the west of the river but the docks upon the east side, there was a necessity to cross the navigable river with many Rail and Road swinbriges of which there are 13 in total, plus a tidal barrier gate at the Rivers entrance. Two of these were rail bridges, the one that survives now is the high l...
Isfield Signalbox and operations
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In this video we take a look at the listed Signalbox at Isfield station upon the Lavendar line in Sussex,named after a local freight company that used the line before its original closure in 1969. We get to see some of the work being undertaken on restoring the signal boxes structure as a grade 2 listed building which also includes the crossing gates We also get to see how the railway operates ...
The Streetlife Museum Hull
Thanks to the Hull City Museums and Galleries, we take a look inside the Streetlife museum which takes us on a 300 year journey of transportation history ,from trams to trains and cars to charabangs. The museum also houses a fantastic railway themed collection including the relocated Cottingham North signalbox set alongside a replica themed level crossing . This video takes us on a commentary f...
HW2000 notes on setting up
Some useful guidance notes on the setting up of the HW2000 machine, these are just for information and you should follow your railways own procedures and paperwork but these may be useful as a refresher to those in the heritage Signaling side who will be working with the point machines.
An afternoon at Consall
No commentary,no voiceovers, just an afternoon of locomotives and signalling at the Churnet Valley Railways Consall Signalbox
Sheffield Park Signalbox
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With thanks to the Bluebell railway we get to see a little of the unique signalbox at Sheffield Park station upon the platform and hear the history of how it came to be thanks to signalman Brian Anderson.
Quarry Siding Blockpost ,TALYLLYN RLY
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Quarry Siding Blockpost ,TALYLLYN RLY
Lakeside loop (Rudyard lake steam railway)
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Lakeside loop (Rudyard lake steam railway)
Ive seen a number of signal box videos, but never one with more than 100 levers. I'd imagine it was multiple signalmen in the box at once
Usually yes though at night if traffic is light it could drop to one person
Wow. What a railway. And all those local signs too! Fantastic concoffany of the bells.
Brilliant! Must visit sometime! Thanks for the look around - really amazing with the signalling all working.
Absolutely stunning. Well done.
Great job chaps
A great piece of educational practice work and an amazing place for those interested in signalling. May it prosper long and well.
iv been up in that box, i would never ba able to work it out,
As a wise Midlands man once said “Just pull what comes”🤫
Great to see this after visiting and riding on the train this Tuesday with our grandsons .
💞Wow💙💙💙💙🧡🧡💙🧡🧡
I have Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Co style K frame serial K24 in my collection in New Zealand, which uses the same Hambay Cross Locking. James T. Hambay of the Union Switch and Signal Co., Pennsylvania was awarded US Patent 406212 on July 2nd 1899 for this system of locking. My K frame has the the same locking as the patent but with slight differences probably due to being manufactured 27 years after the patent date and being made in Chippenham UK. My frame has solid bronze levers which seem to be finer than the steel levers of the style B frame. Fortunately all 24 levers were in perfect condition when I dismantled the frame from Papatoetoe, Auckland in 1989. I have been fortunate to have found some spare parts over the years - 6 spare levers were found in a garage sale at a private house in the mid 90's. A length of wire on which was strung 100 new catch handles was found during a fossicking trip in NZR's Kaiwharawhara Interlocking fitters shop in the early '90s plus a 4" box of spare locking dogs, some new and uncut, were found when Wanganui Relay Repair Depot was closed around 1993. When Newmarket Relay Repair depot in Auckland was closed, I found a K frame bridle iron, complete with dogs, heading for scrap and that has been kept as well. My frame has been returned to service in a museum, complete with 1920s vintage AC relays but has a computer base simulator playing trains with the interlocking machine instead of a real railway. 40 years sgo I bought a Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Co., searchight head relay exactly like the Union H2 in your video, from the South Australian Railway's reclaim store in Adelaide for $5. It is in mint condition and I doubt that it was ever used. No one in the SAR knew anything about the relay and there was no cast iron case for the relay. NZR never used Union searchlights so I have never managed to find a signal head to put the relay in. Congratulations on restoring your style B frame. I loved the shelf full of Q relays waiting for their turn in service. Please keep the searchlight signals working as they are now being replaced with LED signals at a very rapid rate and will shortly be extinct. Keep up the good work. Regards Ken
Worked as a signalman for 15 years.
Memories, brilliant sir🤗
Would you be interested in having some of those working career memories recorded for posterity at all ?
That signalman looks a lot like the guy I've seen in Geoff Marshalls videos on the mainline, but I cant for the life of me remember their name.
Possibly could be the same gent
There is a tablet / smartphone replica of Porthmadog box available as an Android simulator. It's quite a challenge!
the sheer passion and dedication of the keepers are commendable.
Brilliant as always.
Thankyou, I do try 🤞
Wonderful - thankyou.
super guys must take my nephew
Definitely worth it, they give a very good presentation to you whilst you walk round with them on what everything does 👍
Beautiful signal box, a Junior Signalman or Trainee Signaller's nightmare, all that brass to polish! Great narration with excellent information, thank you!
There is a mid - platform signal box at Weybourne on the North Norfolk Railway!!!!
And there is one at Corfe Castle on the Swanage railway.
And Marchwood on the Fawley branch.
I believe Hammerton SB near York is still in use. That is an outdoor frame in a ‘shed’
Lovely box to be saved and used . Great video 👍🏴
I could’ve really watched this for an hour - great video!
Thankyou , much appreciated that, they’re l be more soon
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Is there a term for that type of lever, with the safety on the grip?
If I’m reading g the question right, catch handle locking is what you’re after, the catch being the final part that drives the interlocking, when you squeeze the handle it releases the locking from position a to b or if the levers reverse d to c, then when you move the lever reverse it moves the locking from b to c or going normal c to b, only once you’ve completely released the catch handle does the locking finally allow the drive from c to d in reverse or b to a going normal. So it proves the levers correct and the handles released too.
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Old time Safe Working covered in excellent detail, the old signal box, the heart of yard operations, now consigned to history in Australia, nice to see a preserved one in the UK. Great box Horsted Keynes, clean, tidy and well preserved. Thanks for the memories!
Imagine what it would have been like without track circuits!
Guesswork and binoculars 😎
The train SPADDING
A fine and very interesting video.
Superb restoration of the "box".
Very well done everyone concerned. You have done a great job.
This seems as good a time as any to ask this question: why do signalmen use a hand cloth when operating levers? American "operators" and "levermen" never used those - even on levers with chrome finishes. It is a nice touch of class. Today, there are no manual pipe-connected interlockings left in the United States, and probably less than twenty electric and electro-pneumatic towers.
I beleive the main reason cloths are used is to help prevent rust forming on the polished handles. Stand to be corrected wrong.
Quite correct, plus hands usually with grease , mild acids and such cause the handles to dull over time, in the midlands we clean our handles traditionally so cloths weren’t always used, different areas had different ways of doing things, there were levers with white shrunk handles too but over time they become brittle.
Lovely Video as always! You should pop up to Hereford Box if you ever get the chance, plenty to see there.
Actually trying to arrange some Visits the lines boxes , just waiting emails bacon🫡
I’m resident at Hereford, if permissions are given, you’re more than welcome when I’m on.
Nice video. Thanks.
It should say back on this but obviously the AI read my hungry mind 🤫
What if the barriers were broke and never came down? What is the emergency procedure? Thank you for the video
If the barriers never came down the signal would not clear, persons would be dispatched to get the crossing barriers down and trains running and the fault located, there are robust plans always in place and they vary depending on barrier types and the area but have many similarities.
I've had a couple of days doing Nant Gwernol over the last few years. It's quite enjoyable to do, although you really need to do it on a pink timetable or gala day for it to be a worthwhile day!
Il have to check out a gala day 😁. Thankyou
Nant was staffed last Thursday for the Children's Day event .. did you catch it?
@@filmclipuk unfortunately not, I was there filming several months back now, hope the event went well 🫡
It's actually stud locking rather than tappet on this frame, offering extra excitement for the S&T. Always loved working here.
Not wrong , that’d be interesting to see some photos off
Телефоны и сигнальные устройства моё увлечение, я их реставрирую и коллекционирую. Получил огромное удовольствие. Спасибо!
Trained on these at Clapham depot, Plough Road in August 2022. Always good to get a refresher. 👍
Good machine all round really 🫡
Nice to see the railway progressing. Sad to say we will not be coming back to UK for a third visit, so will have to follow progress on CZcams. Are you still running a three-car DMU? I have a surplus model which I could send if you have a museum with a model railway. Now semi-retired in PICTON, South Island NZ.
The railway has DMus and diesels plus steam, I shall certainly be keeping an eye on the signalling projects and keep you updated 🫡👍
Many happy days in the early 1960’s spent at Dore and Totley Station waiting for the Thames Clyde express headed by a Jubilee to pass through - always exciting.
i hope the stuff can be reused on the other railways for restoration. grear video but sad .nice work guys and network rail
Great gala, location, railway and video. Thank you. I remember Victoria from many visits to the Isle of Mull Railway. The guy who ran that line was the happiest man in the world, running train along the Sound of Mull. When I asked him was that true, he did not deny it, but the smile on his face was evidence enough.
It had incredible scenery there too 🤗
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Farewell and best wishes from a train driver who has driven many times across The Hope Valley.....
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Fascinating to see the levers and computers together. Farewell ye signalmen and the romance of the box.
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I know we must celebrate progress and a move to a centralised, modern world. But whenever I see a local signal box close as a result of an amalgamation into a bigger Route Operating Centre, I feel nothing but sad. Another iconic piece of railway heritage consigned to the history books forever. The art of railway signalling and indeed signalling trains will soon be long forgotten
But when things go pear shaped witth a large centralised signalling system, the resulting loss of revenue, replacement buses, passenger refunds etc must far outweigh the costs of having a person in a box. There was such an event last year on the Ely - Norwich line (somebody nicked some cable) and it totally screwed everything in the Ely area for hours. There was a replacement bus at our local station (Downham Market) that had come all the way from Thurrock. I'd hate to see how much that cost alone.....
ive just applied for a grade 2 role to get started really hope i get it it looks really intresting
Perhaps I've read too many stories, but I'd imagine signal boxes to be quite evocative, even eerie places depending on the location. Looking out into an inky black night with only your own thoughts and the occasional bell for company.
The signal man was a point of contact in the area of an emergency , with a local crew to block and repair . Where are they now , instead of a couple of miles , now it's god now's where . Ah well , they call it progress .