As a station assistant I was moved to Bankstown in late 1997 or early 1998, the signal box had ceased operation by then. About a year later I went to Sydenham as a SPI operator...
Never made it to Bankstown signal box, did see most while I did my apprenticeship with the SRA in Signals and Telecommunications. Great memories of being Signal electrician at Hornsby for a few years.
I never knew there was a signal box at Bankstown but I've never been to this station to have seen it anyway. Apparently, there was a David Jones store out there in those days so it is more of a go-to destination than anywhere on the East Hills line. Interesting footage here, back in the days of timber sleepers and Beclawat windows prior to continuous welded rail, clickety-clack. I thought that there would be so few points in this area it could all be controlled from Punchbowl Car Sidings Box or Sefton Park Junction Box. There is some kind of goods siding east of the platform though that is shown in a January 1978 photo in the Historical Survey Of The Punchbowl Maintenence Centre book by Ray Love and Stephen Halgren that you should still be able to pick up from the ARHS bookshop. Heaps of track diagrams, technical details, and plenty of black-and-white historical photos of the line all the way back to Erskineville plus one from Central in 1922 with the Eastern Car Shed still standing.
@@brettbroadbere2614 I got a thick ear from a signaller when I was a boy during a box visit (Sunshine VIC) for touching the lever handles without the cloth...
As a station assistant I was moved to Bankstown in late 1997 or early 1998, the signal box had ceased operation by then. About a year later I went to Sydenham as a SPI operator...
Never made it to Bankstown signal box, did see most while I did my apprenticeship with the SRA in Signals and Telecommunications. Great memories of being Signal electrician at Hornsby for a few years.
I never knew there was a signal box at Bankstown but I've never been to this station to have seen it anyway. Apparently, there was a David Jones store out there in those days so it is more of a go-to destination than anywhere on the East Hills line. Interesting footage here, back in the days of timber sleepers and Beclawat windows prior to continuous welded rail, clickety-clack. I thought that there would be so few points in this area it could all be controlled from Punchbowl Car Sidings Box or Sefton Park Junction Box. There is some kind of goods siding east of the platform though that is shown in a January 1978 photo in the Historical Survey Of The Punchbowl Maintenence Centre book by Ray Love and Stephen Halgren that you should still be able to pick up from the ARHS bookshop. Heaps of track diagrams, technical details, and plenty of black-and-white historical photos of the line all the way back to Erskineville plus one from Central in 1922 with the Eastern Car Shed still standing.
Tut, tut, tut...no hand cloth for the lever handles?
I was going to mention that lol. I remember my Dad flicking those levers at Chatswood in the 70s..
@@brettbroadbere2614 I got a thick ear from a signaller when I was a boy during a box visit (Sunshine VIC) for touching the lever handles without the cloth...