Bournemouth signalbox

[Tom]

Can someone tell me the location of Bournemouth signalbox please?!

 

[Bmth_pway]

well the box is opposite the network rail offices in carpark or at the end of platform 3 you cant really miss it how ever the new signalling center is located on platform 3 as well at the opposite end and that is quite impressive in there as well

 

[Simming]

Isn't The Signal Box Just Some Container in the Car Park?

 

[Tom]

There used to be a container... not now.

Bmth_pway, yes, I know where you mean now.

 

[Beaker]

silver windows aswell

 

[GeoffM]

Can't say I'm impressed - huge trunks of blue cabling coming out of the containers (8 per 4-aspect signal; more if route indicators), unreliable axle counters that can't... um... count, and 3 people controlling a small lump of railway that 2 people used to be able to control - that's progress for you.

Is the camera sitting on a cable drum on the ballast still pointing at the axle counter on P3?

Could have been done with 2 SSIs, maybe 3 if they insisted on axle counters, and lumped under one IECC, one WestCAD, or one MCS without either of the three breaking a sweat - and controlled by one person, with a second person for backup.

But I guess Railtrack spent lots of money "helping" Siemens develop it for the UK market, so they wouldn't want to lose face and abandon it for better systems - last I heard, Portsmouth was going the same way.

Soapbox dismounted, sorry.

Geoff M.

 

[960012]

its in the old parcels office now, me mates a signalman in there, its quite impressive espaiclly the spad alarm!

 

[Tom]

The camera is still there, yes.

The signalbox itself is quite impressive though IMO. Bournemouth doesn't have that many 4 aspect signals... most are either 3 or 2 aspect.