WHERRY LINES RE-SIG

[Tio Terry]

all been renewed, with a GSM-R style system, modern tech is not always better !

That is most certainly true!

 

[superjohn]

There was an interesting programme about the signalling upgrades on BBC Radio Suffolk this afternoon. They talked to some of the people who operated the old signals etc.
It was a one hour segment of a longer programme so you need to scroll to 3:03 in the file to get to it.

Mid-morning on BBC Radio Suffolk - 13/04/2020 - BBC Sounds

Stories to make you smile and Make A Difference.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Tio Terry]

Only access is the Vauxhall station end. The other one was lost with the abolition of Breydon Jcn box in 1977 mate.

There was an interesting programme about the signalling upgrades on BBC Radio Suffolk this afternoon. They talked to some of the people who operated the old signals etc.
It was a one hour segment of a longer programme so you need to scroll to 3:03 in the file to get to it.

Mid-morning on BBC Radio Suffolk - 13/04/2020 - BBC Sounds

Stories to make you smile and Make A Difference.

www.bbc.co.uk

Thank you for that.

Felt rather sad listening to it because of my time spent there all those years ago. If anyone goes in to Acle Signal Box and gets the drawings out of the relay cabinet and looks at the overall layout sheet, you will see an entry for January 1971 with the initials TAH, my initials. That's when we mole ploughed the cable from Breydon to Brundall and I did the designs for it.

In Lowestoft there is a lot of wiring I did for the abolition of Coke Ovens Junction, there's also lots of other bits and pieces I did around that area that will all now disappear.

I must try to get back there sometime and see how it all looks now. I expect I shall be quite shocked!

 

[LAX54]

Thank you for that.

Felt rather sad listening to it because of my time spent there all those years ago. If anyone goes in to Acle Signal Box and gets the drawings out of the relay cabinet and looks at the overall layout sheet, you will see an entry for January 1971 with the initials TAH, my initials. That's when we mole ploughed the cable from Breydon to Brundall and I did the designs for it.

In Lowestoft there is a lot of wiring I did for the abolition of Coke Ovens Junction, there's also lots of other bits and pieces I did around that area that will all now disappear.

I must try to get back there sometime and see how it all looks now. I expect I shall be quite shocked!

The below is the 1 hour doc that went out on Radio Norfolk, (same as above, but just the Railway bit) it is called THE LAST VICTORIANS.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p088fgz5