Newark To Nottingham Stations & Signalboxes (Some due for demolition next week)

[Frosticles]

Took a lazy trip between Newark Castle & Nottingham Sneinton Signal Box as Sneinton & Netherfield boxes are due for demolition next week as part of the Nottingham re-modelling.
Sneinton Box though is to be removed to the High Marnham test facility at Tuxford for training purposes. Movement of the box will be sometime in the week commencing 22-07-2013.

Full set of pics here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/28825728@N08/sets/72157634685843779/

Couple of samples here -

Interior of Newark Castle Signalbox


Interior of Newark Castle Signal Box by kevaruka, on Flickr

Fiskerton -


158846 at Fiskerton by kevaruka, on Flickr

Lowdham -


60059 at Lowdham Station by kevaruka, on Flickr

Sneinton -


Sneinton Signal Box by kevaruka, on Flickr

 

[Harlesden]

Lovely picture of the interior of the signal box (top picture).
I had always imagined the levers would be facing a window - so the signaller could look out on the line he/she was controlling. Never seen a set of levers facing a blank wall before.

 

[Frosticles]

I would have thought the same. If you have a look at the pics in the set, Staythorpe also has inward facing levers. Fiskerton & Sneinton though have window facing levers......

 

[edwin_m]

Thanks for the excellent photos.

While most traditional boxes have the frame at the front, it's not too uncommon for it to be against the back wall. While crossing boxes also need a good view of the road, the most important view of the railway is out of the end windows in order to see tail lights and give hand signals to drivers.

 

[Tomnick]

Some excellent photos - thanks!

The frame, block shelf, equipment on the block shelf and the diagram usually do an excellent job of obscuring any view out of the front windows, so in that respect it's probably better to have the frame at the back of the box. The end windows remain the most useful for seeing tail lamps and generally observing the passage of trains though.

Some boxes, I understand, ended up with their frame along the back wall if a replacement (often larger) frame was installed whilst the original was still being used.