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Lines That Have Old Style Signal Boxs

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Are there any lines out there that only have old style signal boxs on there entire route ?

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I was going to say Preston to Blackpool North but the Preston end is controlled by Preston PSB
 
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A lot, but not all, of the Plymouth-Penzance route still has mechanical signalling.
 

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I don't know of any streches of line but I do know if some large area which still have semaphores and absolute block: Shrewsbury, Worcester (Shrub Hill/Henwick boxes) and Droitwich Spa
 

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Over the drag starting at Hellifield ( Settle and Carlisle Railway.)
 

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Are there any lines out there that only have old style signal boxs on there entire route ?

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I was going to say Preston to Blackpool North but the Preston end is controlled by Preston PSB

Crewe to shrewsbury. Old style boxes are wrenbury, prees, whitchurch, wem and harlescott then 4 at shrewsbury including the largest mech box in europe. Then shrewsbury to hereford including dorrington, marshbrook, bromfield, wooferton etc. There are wonderful examples of LNWR style boxes all the way to hereford!

 

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Shrewsbury to Crewe wont have for much longer. It is all going into Cardiff over the next few months. Whitchurch is already switched out.
 

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You have semaphore's & signal box @ Tondu, and you have the old signal boxes between Llanelli & Whitand as well as the heart of wales line
 

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Shrewsbury will be there for a good while yet. It's just the intermediate boxes.
 

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You have semaphore's & signal box @ Tondu, and you have the old signal boxes between Llanelli & Whitand as well as the heart of wales line

Yes, Ferryside is a nice location with a signal box and crossing. It's just a pity there are no station buildings left!
 

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I'm not sure what system is in use at Hull Paragon box - but certainly from there northwards its mechanical through to where Seamer box hands over to York IECC
 

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Dundee-Aberdeen and one at Leuchars. The big stations are all coloured-lights, and is Montrose now, but the wayside stations and some intermediate boxes retain semaphores, with North British posts south of Montrose and Caley posts north of there. Stonehaven reminds me of what stations like Lockerbie must have been like once, both in frequency of service and operations. It's a main line in a timewarp.
 

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Any idea if/when Worcester & Droitwich Spa are going to be resignalled?

Worcester area resignalling is scheduled for 2014 - 2019 as far as I know so Droitwich & Worcester boxes will be with us for a while yet.

Stourbridge to Droitwich is due to be resignalled next year but this doesn't include Droitwich station. I think Stourbridge, Blakedown, Kidderminster & Hartlebury boxes are due to close under this scheme.
 

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Yep, all off to Saltley. The scheme ends at the fringe of Droitwich.
I've heard of it loads of times, but where actually is Saltley?

I guess the resignalling stops before the outer distant (DS77?) between Hartlebury and Droitwich as it's part of the Droitwich Spa area
 

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Not many left nowadays not since EROS went large by Notwork Rail. There is still a rather large impressive box at Barnetby (Lincs) and several smaller ones on the Cumbrian Coast line which really are a time-warp special.

This chap has a good site and some superb photographs of boxes mainly S Yorks & N Notts worth a look, deservedly highly rated IMHO !!

http://www.andyknowles.co.uk/indexGallery.htm

Maltby box also springs to mind......it now is in sole control of the old SYJR (Branwith > Kirk Sandal branch), a very difficult line to photograph as its such a jungle nowadays. A mix of semaphores and 2-aspect but still a traditional box if that is what you seek.
 

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Although gradually being replaced by the new East Midlands Control centre, there are still plenty of semaphores on the secondary routes in the East Midlands. Firsby to Ketton on the Leicester to Peterborough route (and then onwards to Norwich with exceptions around Ely and Norwich). The Nottingham to Lincoln and Skegness lines are still mechanically signalled until they reach the ECML, and then the Skegness line is onwards (Lincoln too might have one or two boxes until it gets to the resignalled area around Lincoln itself). Derby to Crewe aswell.
Talking about Norwich, whilst the Sherringham line is resignalled, the Yarmouth and Lowestoft lines are still semaphore signals. The two swing bridges on the Lowestoft line make the case for resignalling much harder (as they would still need manning, infact the need to still man Trowse Swing Bridge even after Colchester took over control of the area was part of the case for resignalling to Sherringham as it gives the person at the bridge something to do).
 

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Some. Bangor, Llandudno Jn, Holyhead and Rhyl(?) are colour signalled. Some intermediate locations (Abergele, Anglesey, etc.) are still semaphore.

Just for information, Rhyl is currently part colour-light and part semaphore!
 
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