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[trv100]

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what is this? i cant find anything about it online. its at Pontefract on the CPM1 line. does anyone know what is is?

 

[endofthetunnel]

It’s from when that used to be Prince of Wales colliery sidings, the running signals would be all along the sidings lines. There’s info on railsigns, but from memory they would show slowly draw forward/backwards or stop depending on the position and colour of the lights.

 

[Ploughman]

A signal for the MGR trains that used to go that way.
Was it Prince of Wales colliery there?

 

[pdeaves]

'Draw ahead' signal, as others have suggested. Sometimes known colloquially as a shower head (particularly if you see the symbol on a signalling plan).

 

[Ken H]

... Then why is it still there????

 

[zwk500]

... Then why is it still there????

Because it would cost more to send people out and recover it than it's worth in scrap value or costing in maintenance.

 

[Surreytraveller]

... Then why is it still there????

Maybe its still interlocked with the signalling in the area, and it would cost money to redo the signalling to remove it?

 

[Ianigsy]

I think there are a few live signals still in place on disused lines in the Pontefract area - I remember seeing one on the back road at Monkhill. Anything about to pass it at danger would have its progress seriously impeded by a small coppice of birch trees.

 

[Ediswan]

There is more than one: https://goo.gl/maps/cYYWMcFac9dLtLYr9
(A closer view, looking the other way from the same spot.)

 

[30907]

Maybe its still interlocked with the signalling in the area, and it would cost money to redo the signalling to remove it?

...is the right answer.

 

[Railsigns]

...is the right answer.

I'd be surprised if it was. These aren't signals in the normal sense; they're indicators for controlling the movements of freight trains during loading or unloading. They usually exist as standalone installations, without any interaction with the normal signalling system.

 

[66701GBRF]

If they were still part of interlocking then they more than likely still be within the railway boundary. It’s probably just a case of forgotten or unknown assets. Given they are in a populated area they probably should be taken down before the local kids start climbing all over them, break a bone then sue.

 

[Annetts key]

I'd be surprised if it was. These aren't signals in the normal sense; they're indicators for controlling the movements of freight trains during loading or unloading. They usually exist as standalone installations, without any interaction with the normal signalling system.

Some Toton loading/shunting/creep signals are interlocked when they are within the area of control of conventional signalling.