Quiz time

[StevieG]

Where were these 3 s/boxes A, B & C boxes??.

These days it's a whole different ball game.

Well that's a tricky one : I can think of at least three places straight away that had boxes suffixed 'A', 'B', and 'C', and I doubt if they're the only three.

[Mickey]

You probably have it Stevie although it's probably a difficult one for the majority on here especially if your not a S.R. fan?.

[Mickey]

It's Wimbledon A, B & C boxes obviously the 'whole different ball game' is a reference to the nearby-

Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Club SW19.

A curious minor feature of Wimbledon 'C' box signalling was the Down Goods line starting signal towards Raynes Park box carried on a small/medium straight post this semaphore stop signal had a red spectacle and a yellow spectacle (instead of the usual green spectacle?) which for a Goods line is quite appropriate.

[StevieG]

You probably have it Stevie although it's probably a difficult one for the majority on here especially if your not a S.R. fan?.

...Or if you're not a footie - cum - crossword-solver fan.

[Mickey]

You probably have it Stevie although it's probably a difficult one for the majority on here especially if your not a S.R. fan?.

...Or if you're not a footie - cum - crossword-solver fan.

I could have said Mike Batt and the Wombles as well Stevie but that would have been to easy.

[John Palmer]

Then there's Highbridge East A, B and C on the S&D.

[kudu]

Then there's Highbridge East A, B and C on the S&D.

Can't believe they needed 3 boxes at Highbridge. Must have been one for each lever.

On the subject of signal boxes, which was the coldest box?

[Mickey]

On the subject of signal boxes, which was the coldest box?

An interesting question kudu but impossible to answer definitively as virtually all mechanical boxes were cold, the usual complaint by signalmen usually during a night shift on a cold night was that the top half of there body from the waist up was warm but there lower half was cold due to heat rising so the box ceiling would be warm wearby the box floor would be cold!!.

In lever frame boxes especially with a large lever frame if there was a group of white spare levers that weren't in use sometimes you would find an old house carpet layed over that part of the frame to try and stop the cold from below coming up through the gaps in the lever slides or if several levers in the frame were hardly ever used there mite be some old newspaper stuffed inbetween the open gap in the lever slides also.

Camden Road was typical of the above even though the lever frame had been taken out maybe because it was a fairly large box you was warm from the waist up but but not so warm lower down, from vague memory Willesden New Line box (on the Euston-Watford DC line) was a fairly cold box on nights.

[strang steel]

Then there's Highbridge East A, B and C on the S&D.

Can't believe they needed 3 boxes at Highbridge. Must have been one for each lever.

On the subject of signal boxes, which was the coldest box?

Wick?

[Bryan]

North Pole?

[Mickey]

North Pole?

I take it your referring to the artic North Pole Bryan and not North Pole Junction on the West London line??.

A onetime LNWR s/box situated between Mitre Bridge Junction & Viaduct Junction (later Kensington North Main box).

[StevieG]

Then there's Highbridge East A, B and C on the S&D.

" Can't believe they needed 3 boxes at Highbridge. Must have been one for each lever. .... "

Until about 100 years ago, it was four, and that was still just the S&DJ; never mind the other two on the GW main line. [ see : -
http://forum.signalbox.org/viewtopic.ph ... dge#p69474 , - post of 16:14 on Dec. 30th 2014, and link therein to "Mike Morant" photo(s) and accompanying text(s) -(hover mouse pointer below photo to see full text).]

[Mickey]

The S&DJ line appeared to have some odd signalling practices like at Foxcote box on a long single line section in the middle of nowhere?.

[silverfox]

What connects 1981 and 2870?

[kudu]

On the subject of signal boxes, which was the coldest box?

You're too literal Micky. Bryan got it - North Pole Junction.

Kudu