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Does anyone remember one of the 2 Greenwood s/box nameboards mounted and bolted onto 2 concrete posts at the end of a private garden over looking the spot of Greenwood s/box a couple of hundred yards south of Hadley Wood south tunnel. I first saw this nameboard back in the summer of 1967 although i presume it had possibly been there from the time when Greenwood box closed in 1959. The nameboard was quite visable from a passing train and remained there for maybe another year or two but i think had gone by about 1969?.


FINSBURY PARK [5] formerly Micky a onetime 'tele lad' at Welwyn Garden City box.

Remember it but that's about all : No idea where it went; perhaps the owner moved elsewhere.
I think I remember seeing it a lot, but didn't pass on the train much at all until 1975, when commuting took me past the site all the time.
Was it still there as late as that (16+ years after the box closed), I wonder ?

StevieG wrote:Was it still there as late as that (16+ years after the box closed), I wonder ?

16+ years after the box closed Stevie?. Didn't Greenwood box close in 1959??.

It may have gone sometime towards the end of 1968 but i am fairly sure it had gone by 1969 i presume that the resident in who's garden it was in had moved or a nocturnal thief had taken it??.

Talking of namesboards i did have at onetime 3 nameboards from G.N. boxes in my possession during the 1970s.

1.FINSBURY PARK [7] with separate No.7 board i can't remember if it was the north or south end board?.

2.CEMETERY south end board.

3.HATFIELD No.1 north end board which was left beside the rubble of the demolished remains of the box in 1973.

All 3 above nameboards were 'lost' in moving in the summer of 1979 BUT there is a remote chance that they were found and could be still in existence somewhere??.

Mickey

FINSBURY PARK [5] wrote:

StevieG wrote:Was it still there as late as that (16+ years after the box closed), I wonder ?

" 16+ years after the box closed Stevie?. Didn't Greenwood box close in 1959??.

It may have gone sometime towards the end of 1968 but i am fairly sure it had gone by 1969 i presume that the resident in who's garden it was in had moved or a nocturnal thief had taken it??. .... "

Yes, '59 was the closure year all right, Mickey :
So then; 1959, + 16, = my query/speculated year of still seeing it; 1975. -

StevieG wrote:I think I remember seeing it a lot, but didn't pass on the train much at all until 1975, when commuting took me past the site all the time.
Was it still there as late as that (16+ years after the box closed), I wonder ?

- but I could well be wrong about seeing it as late as that, hence the "Was it ..... I wonder?".

That Greenwood nameboard had gone sometime either during 1968 or by the early part of 1969 Stevie because it was something that i vaguely remember looking out for after leaving New Barnet on the Down slow line it was of course situated in a private garden in one of those houses that backs up near to the Down slow line on the approach to Hadley Wood south tunnel, i reckon if John the signalman comes on here he may well remember it because i believe he use to frequent the Oakleigh Park-New Barnet area circa 1968-69?.


Mickey a onetime telegraph lad at Welwyn Garden City box.