Recent content by BS56

Any idea what days and times empty clay trains would make this move.

Surely a position light shunt signal would suffice for that task.

Just noticed two signals on signal maps for which their purpose needs to be explained. The first is at St Austall and numbered CL5855 and is on the up side of the line but is intended for down trains and has no other signal in rear of it. The second is CL5790 near black queen tunnel and is on...

Do not forget there was a centre run round loop at Hertford at one time so the kink is needed to maintain the six foot at the London end .

They could have removed the kink in Ware platform but they chose not to.

The platform surface is some form of concrete slab about the same size as the polystyrene blocks each one is craned into place I saw this being done at Hertford earlier this week they come prepainted with white edges as well.

Visited both sites today. At Hertford all new track and pointwork is in place as is most of the ballast. The up platform (2 ) is nearly complete .A small section of the down platform ( 1 ) has been started see photo can anybody tell me what the various parts of the platforms are made of ...

During August work will get underway on replacing the road over bridge at Broxbourne station. But only two spans are being renewed so I understand the third over the mill stream is to stay for now . As this is just as old as the others it will need to be renewed in the near future . Perhaps...

I seem to remember that Harlow town was called Burnt mill to start with but after a few weeks or less it was correctly given it's new name.

Lots going on at Hertford East this week line closed until next Tuesday so they must be renewing track I will try and get down there and take some photo's.

There is already a disused up loop between Enfield Lock and Brimsdown could any use be made of that ?

They have got to renew the track and relocate the trailing crossover first before they start work on the platforms at Hertford East I was told this Easter has anyone heard anything ?

I have seen a signalling plan for 1950 which shows that the down loop and signal box could be switched out and down trains using the up platform if need be thus the signal box could change to a gate cabin ie non block post. As the line was already at that time worked by acceptance switches ( no...

While we are talking about this branch line is the up fixed distant semaphore signal still there approaching red post junction ?

There is another measurement nobody has mentioned that is the decimal imperial. Britain started to look into this some time back when everybody else was converting to metric. I have a metre long steel rule with all three measurements shown on it. If you have never heard of this well I can tell...