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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
Kirkby Green & Scopwick
A look at the signal cabins at the Kirkby Green light railway which operate pneumatically points and signals at this busy little private railway on a charity open day.
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Paignton North ( simulated)
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In this video we take a look at some of project work Will and Robert have been undertaking towards making a realistic simulator of the ex Paignton North cabin using blocks,bells and equipment Robert has been collecting over many years towards this aim. The first part of the simulator is to get the blocks and bells all Will and a supply board made ready to then move to the next part of the proje...
GWR Blocks, Bells and more
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In this video we take a closer look at the inner workings of Great Western Railway bells and all their differing types as well as a dive inside some other interesting GWR Signal box equipment . Our thanks goes to both Robert and Will for guiding us through the technical details and we are planning to make another accompanying video on the subject of the differing GWR block types , so keep an ey...
Acton museum depot
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This video takes us to west 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 un...
Nottingham Industrial museum
Просмотров 181Месяц назад
We take a look around the collection of the Industrial museum based in the old stable block at Wollaton Hall in the city of Nottingham The museum highlights the industries that once made the city wealthy including the railways and telecommunications and there’s a fair few hidden little signalling gems amongst the collection See if you can spot them throughout the video folks 😃
Jointing signal wires
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Just a quick and basic look at jointing signal wires and some of the issues to keep an eye out for
The East Anglian Railway Museum
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Early in 2024 we take a trip over to the East Anglian Railway Museum at Chappel and Wakes Colne to have a look at the museums signals and signal boxes including the listed grade 2 cabin still in situ on the mainline part of the site which luckily was saved after initially having its frame removed for scrapping after closure. We take a look also at the other signalling exhibits around the site i...
Jolly’s & Dolly’s
Просмотров 782Месяц назад
This is a different little video filmed in spring 2024 and with little to do one day I decided to cover several items in one video and go off for a jolly’s for a day seeing what signalling heritage I could find locally so to speak on the transpenine route Firstly we visit the award winning STALYBRIDGE Buffer Bar to have a look at the signalling exhibits there before continuing up the line to Hu...
The Signalling Record Society
Просмотров 338Месяц назад
In this video we take a look at just some of the multitude of archived material that the Signal Record Society has within its archive at Kenilworth for public viewing I’ve left out any interviews and kept the video to just photographs and a little video this time and see if you can spot all the railways and places that now have heritage signalling that pop up within the video, I count at least ...
Penmaenpool & Barmouth
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We take a trip to mid wales on this visit to look at the Signalbox at Penmaenpool which is currently under restoration . We also take a look at the old station site and thanks to additional Material from The Signalling Record Society and Creative Commons we see some of the once extensive infrastructure that signalled the line and its main junction at the seaward end at Barmouth, the main estuar...
A Return to Pitsford & Brampton
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In this video we get to have a look at the operations of Pitsford & Brampton Signalbox upon the Northampton and Lamport railway on January 1st 2024 The cabin acts as the control point for the main locomotive yard and station and is fitted with LNWR block instruments that work to the adjacent Pitsford siding box and also to Boughton box when Pitsford is closed out, but the blocks can back work t...
The Cinderbarrow Railway
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Thanks to our colleagues , the Lancaster and Morecambe model engineering society, we get to look around this multiple gauged park railway , with its pneumatic point systems ,miniature signals and beautifully built signalling system, Our thanks goes to the society for letting us see behind the scenes at how they operate the railway and we hope to return during the summer season to see it in full...
Preston Dock Swingbridge
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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 ap...
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...
Exhibits at Kidderminster
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Just a small Video looking around some of the signalling exhibits in the museum
Restoring a North Staffordshire Block instrument (Part One)
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Restoring a North Staffordshire Block instrument (Part One)
Consall Signalbox following restoration works 2023
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Consall Signalbox following restoration works 2023
The Lancashire Museum of Mining (Part 2 Stewart’s Story)
The Lancashire Museum of Mining (Part 2 Stewart’s Story)
Nice work! Well done!
Very impressive
My grandfather used to volunteer on this railway, nice to see it gets the attention it deserves
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Thank you for all working in the boxes to keep us moving over the years, I loved working over this route as a trolley dolly and as a passenger
Could that single down 47 block have come from Paignton South?
@@SpoonyMcSpoonface there’s a follow up video on where they are going to be used , but no spoilers but you’re getting warmer 😁
This video is just excellent, Thank You very much I am not a signaller, or a signal engineer, but I have personally learnt a lot from this. I have two GWR instruments almost the same as in this video, my permissive instrument has a green background, and to the left of the 'normal' position, mine says 'Line Clear' on the dial face, I also have a Double A.B instrument like the one in the video so seeing this video has been a joy, and I look forward to the next one in the series, all have been good so far, this one especially due to the link to my own two instruments.
@@mrowl-the-dsm1304 thank you, keep an eye on the pages videos there’ll be more coming up soon
With positive motivation may I point to a couple errors you may be able to easily correct. i.e. Your in-video opening title says "Several times a Tear......", and your video description tells us that Acton is in South London, rather than West London.
@@ronmilton1 well spotted, il update those , 🥴🤣🤣
After living in Acton since 2010 I have no idea this was here. I’ll check this out, thanks!
@@stuart2151 definitely worth it, you’ll not be disappointed 🫡
Its amazing how all that electromechanical equipment was built and maintained and to think these days all that mechanical information and interlocking can now be stored on something the size of a flash or usb drive !
@@wideyxyz2271 indeed, if you look at how storage mediums have all changed over time it’s mad, next to the programme machine at the Epping museum is a more modern replacement which uses a usb dongle instead of all that roll 😯
Very interesting thanks for sharing
@@tonycraib5939 you’re very welcome, next weeks should be even better, Acton Museum Depot at LUL
I was always told it was bad practice to use pliers.Done skilfully you didn’t need them.
@@SpoonyMcSpoonface it was indeed, but then the wire became more springy (apparently a batch of Chinese wire that managed to get all around the system), and having seen others use wrapping tools,wire guns and such you start to wonder what’s the actual issue, for example trying to do a pole support guy with much thicker by hand is incredibly hard) but there’s a tool for that like a giant plier, my old lineman Jim gave me a wire wrapping tool he’d had since early BR days with a cutter on its end so cutting stranded galvanised cable with a tool is not a new thing , it may have been down to an adopted practice but that doesn’t mean it’s always the right thing, remember radium baths and cigarettes were once said to be good for you, as was asbestos in bedsheets and arsenic in wallpaper 🙁
@@irseminorrailwayssection9491 Thankfully never had to do a stay wire for a pole,yes you’d certainly need tools for twisting the thicker wire off on those.
Nice to see the 50' lock bar
@@Diesel9a1 could be a 75 foot one, very rare nowadays
sad to see, as totley tunnel is one of my favourite places.
in our country we use little bit different system for changing signals and switches. So if you interesed i can sent some pictures on e-mail or some differnt plattform.
@@MSZD absolutely, yes please
@@MSZD here is the sections email, it has an automated response but we will receive the pics 🤗. IRSE_MRS_Linked@yahoo.com
You'll get the hang of it one day matey. Using cutters though!? Honestly!
Unfortunately the camera missed most of the action !
@@wideyxyz2271 yes unfortunately no tripod and only two hands, so ended up doing the before and after bits as it was easier, it does make you wonder if having multiple arms would be a benefit for the S&T, my issues would think so as I could do more diy 🤗😭
Channel IRON
200ml drive
Adjusting crank
Facing point lock
Economical movement
You should use one of these to explain the Clapham train crash.
@@user-br3bw7wr2l it’d be interesting, I could explain a few simple accidents from history and how they came about out but Mark from the fast show Diana pretty good series on this about a decade ago , il keep it in mind for a future video 🫡
Lady signaller. How about a good old fashioned 'Bobby'!
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Not a safe way of working.
Excellent, thanks for making it and sharing it with us, lads. Memories of the 70s and 80s at Crewe and passengers for York and beyond enquiring for a train. 'Change at Stockort and Stalybridge' we'd always tell them without having to go into too much detail
@@1D84down I may have to do the parliamentary run from Stockport one day for a few beers ,just for fun of course 🤗
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Is this the box formerly Little Bowden crossing at Market Harborough ?
@@peterbowley1865 I believe it is
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This is excellent
Nice Oswestry south diagram! Have seen the blue version before but not one in colour
Wow! this seems so complicated, but also intuitive, must be equivalent to Flying a helicopter, but 200 + years ago
@@stevem7868-y4l and if you make a mistake at least signalling tries to stop you….unlike the helicopter 🤞
How are they using double line block for single line? are there special arrangements to stop both blocks being moved at the same time (other than the train staff) is it normal for train staff only lines to be signalled using double line block instruments? edit: just saw 6:16 is the top indicator not labeled?
@@djbhi2 from what I was told it is used only for description via the bell, but on busy days, it is more for showing the visitors ,though there are plans
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Very nice! Sad too, but, as they say time marches on. Thank you for recording abit of history for us!
What’s with the brown levers? Why does one have a single white band, and why does the other have multiple? What do they control?
@@TheChris2009 brown levers usually for release of ground frames separate to the Signalbox There is a small ground frame outside the box used for shunting the yard to the mainline when the box is closed , it is interlocked with the box but used when it’s quiet periods and the Signalbox is not open and manned hence brown levers but white stripe (release of signal) The striped brown and white levers would be a king lever , when operated in conjunction with the interlocking and tokens it allows you to clear all the normally opposing signals in both directions so you can close the box but still have trains signalled past. Eg all signals cleared but no one working the box
Good to see another Dutton frame..I worked a Dutton frame in Woodley Jct box, situated on the CLC line from Stockport-Godley..I always found it strange to see the locking at the back of the frame, rather than the usual locking underneath the operating floor..good video..The only other Dutton frame I have seen is in Douglas, IOM, but as that is narrow gauge, so isd the frame smaller than a standard sized frame..The box is now out of use, but the last time I were there in 2016, I arranged to visit it, and was accompanied by a member of staff...
Brilliant.Love the set up.
@@wideyxyz2271 very clever how they’ve done some of the operations
🎉 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
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 RUclips 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