Way cool to see those signal boxes (towers we call them in the US) still operating in 2013. That last one (Holyhead, I think?) appeared to be using both automated and manual systems. I almost felt as if I was actually there! Do you know if those signal boxes are still operating? Or have they all been replaced by now?
Superbly put together on the disappearing world of mechanical signalling. Many thanks for posting.
Way cool to see those signal boxes (towers we call them in the US) still operating in 2013. That last one (Holyhead, I think?) appeared to be using both automated and manual systems. I almost felt as if I was actually there!
Do you know if those signal boxes are still operating? Or have they all been replaced by now?
Still working as of 2023.
@@fmnut Very good! 👍 That begs the old adages, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," and "If you can't fix it, it ain't broke!* 🚂
Interesting, but why the foreboding music?
Because I like it? Also because these boxes and the jobs they create are living on borrowed time.