Liverpool Lime St remodelling

[Tomnick]

The light above the signal which shows the route set. Straight up - straight on; diagonally to the left - diverging to the left; diagonally to the right - diverging to the right. Driver needs to know as there may be different speed resrictions, and he will want to know that he's being sen t the right way!

You don't get "straight up" feathers - there'd be no route indication at all for the 'straight' (or fastest) route in that case.

 

[6Gman]

You don't get "straight up" feathers - there'd be no route indication at all for the 'straight' (or fastest) route in that case.

Ah yes, good point. (But if the straight route is the lower speed route ... ?)

 

[Tomnick]

Ah yes, good point. (But if the straight route is the lower speed route ... ?)

Then you might find that a junction indicator ("feather"!) is provided for the straight route but not for the physically diverging, but higher speed, route, or you might find a junction indicator for each route.

 

[edwin_m]

As I posted a couple of pages back, a diverging route has a feather even if it is the highest speed or indeed the only route. This is to avoid drivers momentarily forgetting that their route is over lower-speed diverging points and continuing at full speed (Foxhall Junction, late 1960s).

 

[childwallblues]

Allerton Junction signal box was demolished yesterday.

 

[Gareth]

May it rest in peace.

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Allerton wasn't very old was it? 1960s electrification?
Is Speke going or staying - that's much older, very similar to those at Stockport.
Garston was destroyed by fire not that long ago.

 

[Gareth]

Does it not date to when the chord was put in that allowed CLC trains to go into Lime Street instead of the old Central High Level?

1960s seems about right.

 

[driver_m]

Allerton wasn't very old was it? 1960s electrification?
Is Speke going or staying - that's much older, very similar to those at Stockport.
Garston was destroyed by fire not that long ago.

Speke got flattened a while back now.

 

[childwallblues]

May it rest in peace.

iT WAS YESTERDAY ON THE DECK IN lIVERPOOL sOUTH pARKWAY sTATION

 

[DaveHarries]

Allerton Junction signal box was demolished yesterday.

With the lever frame still inside, which is a pity.

Dave