Great video thank you. Awesome work achieved by the team who have preserved this railway and signal box. Jonathan's tie looks like an IRSE New Zealand 1987 souvenir. I was a tour guide at Taumarunui during the convention field trip to the new 25kV electrification project and I have one of those ties in my wardrobe. I also spent happy days with Jonathan travelling around New Zealand while he researched his book on Westinghouse L lever frames. Great to see you again after all these years. Ken A.
Really interesting video. Made more interesting because my wife's great uncle was a signal man at Leominster and probably worked in the box shown in the diagram. Thanks for doing it and sharing it.
I bet there’s some history there with your wife’s family, if you ever want to share any of that there’s a lot who’d be interested in that, especially given the line itself and both Fencote and Bromyard being preserved
@@irseminorrailwayssection9491 I’ll see what I can find. He was in the RE Railway section in WW2. Worked on the RHDR while a CQMS ( later a 2nd Lieutenant) saying the Canadians who were there before destroyed the interlocking in the signal boxes (shaked his head and spoke sadly at telling me this to me). Seems they couldn’t get their head around interlocking😮 Told me all about the armoured train. He is mentioned in the history of the RHDR by JD Snell (I have a copy somewhere). Went over to France on D day plus 6 and was stationed at Bayeau. My wife has some diary extracts for that. When we visited Normandy I made a point of visiting Bayeau Station and walking around it knowing her great uncle was there at that moment us time. My wife also has some of his papers including a book on RE railway operation of recently captured lines and another identifying Germany rail stock and different types of explosives😮
Excellent, as with many things there’s so many aspects of a system that exist more on heritage lines than the mainline but at least they still exist, nearer to Christmas il be releasing some videos on the inside of the magic red box,”the token machine” so you’ll get to see how it actually works
@@irseminorrailwayssection9491 now that will be interesting 👍 thank you for sharing these treasures plus these help with my OO Gauge Heritage railway I will be making.
Nice to see Mr H’s locking being tested. Remember to lock the facers before pulling off 😃
I visited here some years ago,it’s a wonderful place.
Great video thank you. Awesome work achieved by the team who have preserved this railway and signal box. Jonathan's tie looks like an IRSE New Zealand 1987 souvenir. I was a tour guide at Taumarunui during the convention field trip to the new 25kV electrification project and I have one of those ties in my wardrobe. I also spent happy days with Jonathan travelling around New Zealand while he researched his book on Westinghouse L lever frames. Great to see you again after all these years. Ken A.
Good to see this production. The last time I visited that signal box was in 2008.
Really interesting video. Made more interesting because my wife's great uncle was a signal man at Leominster and probably worked in the box shown in the diagram. Thanks for doing it and sharing it.
I bet there’s some history there with your wife’s family, if you ever want to share any of that there’s a lot who’d be interested in that, especially given the line itself and both Fencote and Bromyard being preserved
@@irseminorrailwayssection9491 I’ll see what I can find. He was in the RE Railway section in WW2. Worked on the RHDR while a CQMS ( later a 2nd Lieutenant) saying the Canadians who were there before destroyed the interlocking in the signal boxes (shaked his head and spoke sadly at telling me this to me). Seems they couldn’t get their head around interlocking😮 Told me all about the armoured train. He is mentioned in the history of the RHDR by JD Snell (I have a copy somewhere). Went over to France on D day plus 6 and was stationed at Bayeau. My wife has some diary extracts for that. When we visited Normandy I made a point of visiting Bayeau Station and walking around it knowing her great uncle was there at that moment us time. My wife also has some of his papers including a book on RE railway operation of recently captured lines and another identifying Germany rail stock and different types of explosives😮
I have recently done COSS course and portion of that course was relating to token block lines was very interesting I enjoy Heritage railways.
Excellent, as with many things there’s so many aspects of a system that exist more on heritage lines than the mainline but at least they still exist, nearer to Christmas il be releasing some videos on the inside of the magic red box,”the token machine” so you’ll get to see how it actually works
@@irseminorrailwayssection9491 now that will be interesting 👍 thank you for sharing these treasures plus these help with my OO Gauge Heritage railway I will be making.
Authorized is the American spelling.