Distant view of unidentified station

[lazonbytunnel]

A friend has asked me to post this here. Unfortunately the image resolution isn’t the best but can anyone suggest where this might be?

 

[Gloster]

The signal box looks as though it might be Great Northern: could we have an enlargement of it? If so, could it possibly be the flat lands of Lincolnshire?

 

[lazonbytunnel]

The signal box looks as though it might be Great Northern: could we have an enlargement of it? If so, could it possibly be the flat lands of Lincolnshire?

Does that help at all? Shame about the resolution.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Doddington and Harby, before the road bridge was built replacing the level crossing?

 

[LYradial]

Doddington and Harby, before the road bridge was built replacing the level crossing?

The van behind the timber is likely a great northern fish van

 

[Ashley Hill]

Doddington and Harby, before the road bridge was built replacing the level crossing?

Here’s a photo of that station for comparison. The station building is only single story.


Image,Wikimedia Commons.

 

[Gloster]

Although the track plan seems to fit, the bridge was there at a very early date and the building doesn’t have the correct style.

 

[Taunton]

What appears to be a circular signal connected to the trailing point mechanism in nothing I have seen before. Is the picture in Britain?

Likewise the small 4-wheeled wagons, three of them, holding up raw tree trunks.

 

[Gloster]

What appears to be a circular signal connected to the trailing point mechanism in nothing I have seen before. Is the picture in Britain?

Likewise the small 4-wheeled wagons, three of them, holding up raw tree trunks.

Point indicator disc or ground signal.

Using three four-wheeled bolsters for one tree trunk was done when necessary.

 

[LYradial]

Is it my imagination or are we seeing the start of a single line section, the right hand pair of running rails are shiny but the left hand ones not so

 

[AndrewE]

Is it my imagination or are we seeing the start of a single line section, the right hand pair of running rails are shiny but the left hand ones not so

or is that just the angle of the sun? (more round to the RHS of the pic than top left)

 

[Bald Rick]

I’m going to be controversial, that track looks a bit wider than standard gauge; could it be in Ireland?

 

[LYradial]

https://basilicafields.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/gn_18t_fish_1899.jpg

its definitely a GN fish van, quite what it’s doing here instead of travelling between Grimsby and London I don’t know but maybe it arrived on Friday morning and is waiting to be collected.

 

[Rescars]

Is that a signal post we can see at the far end of the platform? But didn't both the GNR and the GNR(I) go in for somersault signals? So perhaps it wouldn't help that much even if we could see the arm!

 

[Dr Day]

Newtonstewart, Co Tyrone? Landscape doesn’t feel right though.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Here’s a photo of that station for comparison. The station building is only single story.

Ah... drat... overlooked that...!!!

 

[Railsigns]

But didn't both the GNR and the GNR(I) go in for somersault signals?

I don't believe the GNR(I) had any somersault signals. The Belfast & Northern Counties Railway did, however.

 

[Rescars]

Ah, I stand corrected.

 

[D6130]

I’m going to be controversial, that track looks a bit wider than standard gauge; could it be in Ireland?

I was thinking that too!

 

[AndrewE]

I wonder if the gauge just looks wide because of the very light rail?
Is that a "signal" on a short pole by the point blades - a direction indicator? I haven't seen that in the UK but that doesn't mean it wasn't used somewhere...

 

[Gloster]

I wonder if the gauge just looks wide because of the very light rail?
Is that a "signal" on a short pole by the point blades - a direction indicator? I haven't seen that in the UK but that doesn't mean it wasn't used somewhere...

See #9.

 

[Railsigns]

Is that a "signal" on a short pole by the point blades - a direction indicator? I haven't seen that in the UK but that doesn't mean it wasn't used somewhere...

That type of disc signal was used by the Great Eastern Railway, the Highland Railway, the South Eastern Railway and the LB&SCR.

 

[AndrewE]

That type of disc signal was used by the Great Eastern Railway, the Highland Railway, the South Eastern Railway and the LB&SCR.

Thanks for that, but is it a disc signal? It looks like a signal lamp which would rotate on the vertical axis to show a white light as in the picture and (maybe) a frosted glass diagonal pointing to the siding when the points move...

 

[Taunton]

I’m going to be controversial, that track looks a bit wider than standard gauge; could it be in Ireland?

That was my thought too, part of my question about was it in Britain, although the signalbox looks totally British.

Now I'll really go for broke and suggest the 5'3" lines in Victoria and South Australia

 

[30907]

That type of disc signal was used by the Great Eastern Railway, the Highland Railway, the South Eastern Railway and the LB&SCR.

If this is GB and standard gauge, I think we can eliminate the last two, and I would hazard a guess at the GER.

 

[D6130]

If this is GB and standard gauge, I think we can eliminate the last two, and I would hazard a guess at the GER.

Yes, the signalbox does look to be of Great Eastern design.

 

[LYradial]

On July 3 1879 the GN and GER joint railway was formed, a few lines in Lincolnshire were affected, also a new joint line from
Spalding to Lincoln was built

 

[Railsigns]

Thanks for that, but is it a disc signal? It looks like a signal lamp which would rotate on the vertical axis to show a white light as in the picture and (maybe) a frosted glass diagonal pointing to the siding when the points move...

It's either an independent disc signal or a points indicator that worked in unison with the points. It hard to tell without a clear picture of the operating mechanism (an independent disc would have a weight lever on its side, whereas a points indicator wouldn't). I would expect the light to show red to match the disc when in the position shown, and a white light to show when the lamp was rotated on the vertical axis. I'm not aware that any British points indicators showed a diagonal line or arrow when turned; that feels like more of a 'down under' thing to me.

 

[Gloster]

The Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint had boxes of both Great Northern and Great Eastern design, with both only being found to the north of Sleaford, while south thereof they were only Great Eastern. A Great Eastern point disc was more likely to be found south of Sleaford.

My understanding of page 116 of OPC’s The Signal Box.

 

[Rescars]

Can anyone suggest why all the sleepers in the foreground are concealed under a layer of something, though visible under the points and in the right hand sidings? Seems a bit odd for a running line. Also, there appears to be a point rod in the foreground. Where is it going? Is it directly controlled from the box?