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It's not too common for a 150 to appear on either a York to Bridlington or a Sheffield to Scarborough service (as mentioned, these are usually the booked 155's, sporadic 158's and 170's), but when they do appear, it's usually the 2-car variant. However, on Sunday 13th October, a 3-car variant...

Just to update the wheel operated barriers, Driffield's will be replaced in late-January 2025 with conventional barriers. Work has already commenced on the replacement crossing. Barton Hill (between York & Malton on the York to Scarborough line) has the same type of crossing, so one will remain...

Grimsby Town Platform 1 back in use today, so looks like the points have been either repaired or replaced. Overnight possession did overrun slightly, causing a few cancellations, but back to normal now by the looks of things.

To update this, Goxhill lost it's semaphore signals within the past couple of years. Unusually, though, it still retains crossing gates. Oxmarsh crossing & Barrow Road retain their semaphores, but Barrow Road now has barriers rather than gates.

There are no regular daily booked freights on the Brigg line at all, yet alone oil. The only regular oil trains in the area are via Lincoln or Scunthorpe. Brigg only sees regular freight diversions, usually every 6 weeks on weekday nights, the previously mentioned 4-weekly PLPR test train, & the...

Nope. DRS currently don't use theirs, all stored until Autumn (RHTT's).

Ignore. Tired eyes!

The train technically still runs, it just runs from Robeston rather than Lindsey Oil Refinery now.

With Wrawby Junction closing, the line down to Holton-le-Moor has to be resignalled, as York ROC won't be able to see tail lights at Wrawby Junction to give "Train Out of Section" to Holton-le-Moor after clearing the Absolute Block section!

On duty tonight at Holton-le-Moor Signal Box, I have had the honour of receiving the last 7-5-5 "Closing Signal Box" bell code from Wrawby Junction. Absolute Block controls & the Block Bells are now decomissioned, and some of Holton-le-Moor's signals have been signed out of use, ready for...

I believe something along the lines of "Box decomissioned at xxxx hours", and presumably the 7-5-5 "Closing Signal Box" bell code is sent to the adjacent boxes at a similar time. Pasture Street SB currently controls the line between Littlefield Lane LC (between Marsh Junction SB & Grimsby...

In the affected area, the boxes remaining open will be: Immingham Reception Sidings SB, Immingham West SB, Goxhill SB, Oxmarsh SB, Holton-le-Moor SB, Wickenby SB, Langworth SB, Lincoln SCC, Brigg SB, Kirton Lime Sidings SB, Northorpe SB, Gainsborough Central SB, Gainsborough Trent Junction SB...

Swinderby is between Lincoln & Newark. Nothing to do with the North Lincolnshire resignalling! Scunthorpe PSB is remaining open after the resignalling this Christmas. Signal boxes east of Scunthorpe PSB, Brigg SB & Holton-le-Moor SB throughout to Cleethorpes are closing. This includes Appleby...

Two of the three Immingham Signal Boxes (West & Reception Sidings) are remaining as they currently are after this Christmas/New Year North Lincolnshire resignalling (ABP own these rather than Network Rail, so are unaffected apart from some slight alterations). East will close as a Signal Box...

I recently upgraded from a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ40 compact camera to a Nikon D3300 DSLR camera. After 3 months or so of getting used to it, I can thoroughly recommend it if you're just getting into DSLR photography. As it's an entry level DSLR, it's functions are easy to pick up, & there's a...