DaveHarries
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Hi all,
Not sure if anyone saw this in "The Times" yesterday (20-Feb-2016, page 20).....
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/transport/article4695178.ece
I have been thinking of a photographic trip to get these East Anglia boxes in but, then again, I had also been thinking of doing North Wales Coast but I believe that isn't now going to be done until 2017.
Dave
Not sure if anyone saw this in "The Times" yesterday (20-Feb-2016, page 20).....
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/transport/article4695178.ece
..... which was accompanied, on page 27, by an item in the "Leading Article" section of the paper - I would link into that but you can't read it without being a subscriber: fortunately my Dad gets "The Times" on Saturdays so I have cut out both articles. The page 20 item seems to imply that the boxes between Norwich and Lowestoft / Great Yarmouth will be abolished later this year. Does anyone know for certain if my assumption is correct, or will the two systems run alongside each other for a while?The traditional track-side signal box, which has been a feature of Britain’s railways for at least 150 years, is to be made redundant as part of radical plans to upgrade the Victorian network.
More than 500 boxes, including many that still rely on hand levers and Morse code-style messages, will be retired to update a network that is described as still being in the Dark Ages.....
I have been thinking of a photographic trip to get these East Anglia boxes in but, then again, I had also been thinking of doing North Wales Coast but I believe that isn't now going to be done until 2017.
Dave
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