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IRSE Minor Railways Section
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Videos covering heritage signalling and telecommunications related items of interest from minor and heritage railways
Preston Dock Swingbridge
For a change we take a look at this interesting mix of road, rail and river on the Preston Dock Swingbridge used by the Ribble Steam Railway as well as local freight traffic in the city of Preston,United Kingdom.
The bridge itself is a two span, pylon supported steel able span bridge able to be swung open to allow access to the dock marina but also has two traditional barrier crossings yards apart on one end, the crossing over the bridge as well as another crossing and pedestrian crossing at the other end all only a few hundred yards apart from each other.
We take a look at the bridge and some trains during the cold and very windy Santa season in the end of 2023.
The bridge itself is a two span, pylon supported steel able span bridge able to be swung open to allow access to the dock marina but also has two traditional barrier crossings yards apart on one end, the crossing over the bridge as well as another crossing and pedestrian crossing at the other end all only a few hundred yards apart from each other.
We take a look at the bridge and some trains during the cold and very windy Santa season in the end of 2023.
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The L&Y vertical tablet machine
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Having a play with the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway vertical tablet machine at the Kidderminster railway museum,one of a pair (the other being in a separate collection but it is hoped soon will be released to the museum so they can effect a working pair sometime soon) To say it’s a bit fiddly is an understatement as I thought I’d lined it up when inserting it but it had turned in getting it...
Acton museum depot
This video takes us to south London and the Transport For London museum collection at Acton Depot The depot opens to the public on select days and the details of how to visit and book tickets together with the collection can be found using the link below We visited in mid 2024 and I would give yourself a good few hours to get around everything as the building itself houses some 30,000 objects u...
Exhibits at Kidderminster
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Just a small Video looking around some of the signalling exhibits in the museum
Midland Survivors
We take a look at some of the remaining signalboxes upon the Peterborough to Leicester line at Oakham ( the prototype for the original Airfix Signalbox let) as well as the overhauling Signalbox of Lms design at Melton and the cabin at Ketton , where in 2024 you can see the only remaining Midland Railway lower quadrant still in use on the national network and likely the countries oldest working ...
The National Railway Museum
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In this video we take a look through the vast signalling collection of the National Railway Museum In 2023 when we visited, the museum was part way into a several year rebuild and as part of this the main signal gallery and some of the other signalling exhibits were not available with the projects remodelling We’d like to see the signalling at the museum get more of a display alongside track wo...
Restoring a North Staffordshire Block instrument (Part One)
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Our thanks goes to our colleague Andy for taking us through some of the work he’s so far completed on the restoration of his North Staffordshire block instrument. In this first video we see the restoration of the case and the main mechanism and wel catch up in part two with the electrical side and more All photographs and video with kind permission of A Sollis.
Sarnau Signalbox,Scolton Manor Park
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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’...
Fawley Hill ( signalling & operation)
With grateful thanks to the McAlpine Family ,we visit the railway at Fawley Hill, a private railway built by the late Sir William McAlpine a lifelong enthusiast of railways and businessman and now operated and maintained by volunteers and staff at the estate. The railway is listed as being the steepest graded passenger carrying line in the World at 1 in 13 and the railways own steam locomotive ...
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...
An hour at Horsted Keynes Signalbox
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An hour at Horsted Keynes Signalbox
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)
🎉 superb ..... quite the contrast to being a Signalman on the Central Highlands Tourist Railway (CHTR) in the 1990's - 2000's at Daylesford, Musk and Bullarto (now the Spa Country Railway - Daylesford) as we only had Train Staff and Ticket (pursuant to the Tourist Railway Act) ie. No signal box and few signals ...... Great Work😊
A dock in Preston? I had no idea.
my uncle Reg Banks worked at Eastleigh signal box for years bless him. i think he started at Brockenhurst probably in the 1950s 😁🐢
@@newforestpixie5297 thanks for sharing that, bet there was a lot of memories and stories to tell there
I wouldn't mind doing some signalling here, much closer to Somerset than what Embsay is, and it has different methods of working.
@@warrenmcclintoch4232 a lot closer 🤭
@irseminorrailwayssection9491 do they have volunteer accommodation on the railway because I would come down for a week at a time .
@@warrenmcclintoch4232 there is a sleeping coach, it’s being worked on at present
@irseminorrailwayssection9491 I will speak to someone at the railway to find out what the situation is. Thanks for help it's much appreciated.
Well done to everyone concerned.
Trabalho explêndido. Nota-se o amor e a dedicação ao trabalho. Parabéns.
Gracias
nice to see some old Strowger there (in the thumbnail picture). Strowger was being phased out of BT when I joined in '88 as an apprentice. now in 2024 , we are phasing out the PSTN.so my job comes to an end. currently applying for Railway Signalling in ELY (cambs)
I know the feeling, luckily our colleague Mike ran me through a taster of how it all works which is the video you’ve got the thumbnail from, I never really got into that side of it being more the S side than the T side and yet we did have two STROWGER driven train describer setups with the relay sets rather than the selectors, those were at cheadle hulme and at romiley, the latter becoming spare parts after removal for some of the P.O type relays in our old STROWGER exchange up at Rowsley. Good luck with the job move.
That’s Fab Dom.. 👍🏼 nicely done.
Total random visit, was delayed getting a ferry over to dads so went and had a nip in, they were happy to let me see everything as it was a quiet day ., really nice little place to visit
What does each color mean in the signalbox? 🤔
Black levers mechanical points, blue are facing point locks, red signals, yellow distant signals, there are also other colours such as detonator placers black and white stripes with the arrow Ed stripes pointing in the direction of the line so up for the up line and down for the down line, black and blue levers combined motorised points, you can also have browns,greens, and combinations therof for special functions
Just to clarify, some of what is seen here are photos of a friends block in comparison and also the donor Caledonian Railway block too that was used to remake the missing top “cabinet” for mine, of which he kindly supplied many dimensions and photos to help. Work continues now on the locks, recovering the coils and artwork has been drawn up for the front face.
Very informative video! Just started working AB. Pretty complicated, but very interesting.
Have a check out on UA-cam at the other railway control videos for absolute block, there’s a few out there, it’s pretty run of the mill once you get used to it, of course I’m used to the other side of it ( the actual wiring side which is far more complicated) 😄
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 UA-cam. 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