A nice picture of Goods And Mineral Junction just how we like to remember it.
Is the box nameboard missing it was mounted above and along the top of the door i recall?.
Perched high up i dare say it was a nice view looking down into Belle Isle and also towards Five Arch from the box.
The North London line trains (on the Down no.2 line) must have seemed fairly close from inside the box?.
I had a feeling that there was maybe 3 full size semaphore stop signals at Five Arch rather than the 2 that i previously posted.
The caladonian goods yard in the 1950s
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Re: The caladonian goods yard in the 1950s
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Re: The Caledonian goods yard in the 1950s
View was good Micky, except one morning when a hard-working Deltic passed with a Down train of Mk.IIs, issuing such dense white exhaust that you could hide the train from view with your hand & forearm, and imagine all the smoke was from a Gresley pacific-hauled express - The smell was rather different though!
And the 'fog' was so thick for a minute or so, that for a shunt trip by the 08 yard pilot between roads in 'the North Yard' that needed 99 points changed when the last wagon/van was clear, we had to listen through an open window for when the trip came to a stand, and for the creaks of the (virtually) stationary loose-coupled vehicles to try and decide exactly where, not far from being right outside the box, the trip was, as to whether it had stopped clear of the points : - Despite being almost directly below (remembering that this box was very high), couldn't see the trip's loco/vehicles at all!
The NLL DCs did seem close, but because of their line's height you could only easily see them from near the north end (when you could also watch York Road's Down Homes with Maiden Lane's Distant) or out of the back window : But it was audibly that they seemed close every time; quite frequent. They made quite a rumble on the viaduct/bridge, Up as well as Down!
And the 'fog' was so thick for a minute or so, that for a shunt trip by the 08 yard pilot between roads in 'the North Yard' that needed 99 points changed when the last wagon/van was clear, we had to listen through an open window for when the trip came to a stand, and for the creaks of the (virtually) stationary loose-coupled vehicles to try and decide exactly where, not far from being right outside the box, the trip was, as to whether it had stopped clear of the points : - Despite being almost directly below (remembering that this box was very high), couldn't see the trip's loco/vehicles at all!
The NLL DCs did seem close, but because of their line's height you could only easily see them from near the north end (when you could also watch York Road's Down Homes with Maiden Lane's Distant) or out of the back window : But it was audibly that they seemed close every time; quite frequent. They made quite a rumble on the viaduct/bridge, Up as well as Down!
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Re: The caladonian goods yard in the 1950s
Sounds like the TOTAL RAILWAY EXPERIENCE working the box Stevie great views all around with plenty of train movements going on down in Belle Isle as well as shunting going on in & out of the Goods Yard plus goods trains arriving & departing and back in 'steam days' loco movements to & from Top Shed and even the North London line closeby with the York Road box home signal (on a bracket post with Maiden Lane's distant signal) out the back window that place must have been as close as it could be to being in 'Railway Heaven' as possible??.
I vaguely recall seeing a couple of interior photographs of the box somewhere did it had a Saxby & Farmer lever frame?.
I never had the pleasure of climbing the long outside staircase and having a look in (a bit of a difficult box to get into unless you knew someone who could get you in due to it's location) although the box was always one of my favourite boxes in the London area and still is 40 years after closing in 1975.
I vaguely recall seeing a couple of interior photographs of the box somewhere did it had a Saxby & Farmer lever frame?.
I never had the pleasure of climbing the long outside staircase and having a look in (a bit of a difficult box to get into unless you knew someone who could get you in due to it's location) although the box was always one of my favourite boxes in the London area and still is 40 years after closing in 1975.
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Re: The Caledonian goods yard in the 1950s
No, Railway Signal Co. : Same as, or similar to, Hatfield 2 & 3, Welwyn North, plus IIRC, Holloway South Down and Langley.Micky wrote: " .... I vaguely recall seeing a couple of interior photographs of the box somewhere did it had a Saxby & Farmer lever frame?. .... "
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Ok thanks Stevie.StevieG wrote:No, Railway Signal Co. : Same as, or similar to, Hatfield 2 & 3, Welwyn North, plus IIRC, Holloway South Down and Langley.Micky wrote: " .... I vaguely recall seeing a couple of interior photographs of the box somewhere did it had a Saxby & Farmer lever frame?. .... "