PSBs not near a station

[Rescars]

Does Old Oak PSB count? The box has long gone and the station is yet to arrive!

 

[Sad Sprinter]

Does Old Oak PSB count? The box has long gone and the station is yet to arrive!

When did it go? But no that would definitely count

 

[LowLevel]

Lincoln SCC is a good mile or so from Lincoln station, it was next to the old West Holmes signalbox which was demolished 15 years ago.

 

[Rescars]

When did it go? But no that would definitely count

Presumably when Slough IECC was commissioned. Others may have knowledge of dates.

Has anyone mentioned Gloucester yet? IIRC it is inconveniently distant from the station, but handy for overseeing a level crossing.

 

[westcoaster]

Depends on the definition of a PSB, but Marston Vale probably qualifies.

Marston Vale SCC is on the platform.

Victoria central was actually near Clapham junction.

 

[matchmaker]

Now gone, but Millerhill (Edinburgh). I don't think it even had passenger services past it. Millerhill Station closed in 1955, long before the PSB or its successor existed.

 

[godfreycomplex]

Presumably when Slough IECC was commissioned. Others may have knowledge of dates.

1993

A good number signal boxes these days are in convenient (in many senses) locations. There are some mechanical boxes twenty miles from the nearest station! But in terms of modern boxes now Trent has gone Basingstoke ROC must take the cake.

 

[Sad Sprinter]

1993

A good number signal boxes these days are in convenient (in many senses) locations. There are some mechanical boxes twenty miles from the nearest station! But in terms of modern boxes now Trent has gone Basingstoke ROC must take the cake.

Why was Trent in the middle of nowhere?

Wasn't the Gospel Oak to Barking Line controlled from a PSB named after a junction rather than a station?

 

[bishdunster]

1993

A good number signal boxes these days are in convenient (in many senses) locations. There are some mechanical boxes twenty miles from the nearest station! But in terms of modern boxes now Trent has gone Basingstoke ROC must take the cake.

Must need one hell of a pull to move twenty miles of point rodding!

 

[LowLevel]

Why was Trent in the middle of nowhere?

Wasn't the Gospel Oak to Barking Line controlled from a PSB named after a junction rather than a station?

It isn't, really. It's on the road network and it's centrally located for it's operating area. It isn't too close to a railway station but it's close to Toton yards and so on.

The era of it's commissioning however means that it had a large number of additional shunt frames scattered through it's control area to work yards, sidings or level crossings.

I believe it had one big interlocking too rather than local ones.

 

[godfreycomplex]

It isn't, really. It's on the road network and it's centrally located for it's operating area.

Not much consolation for those who work there unfortunately.

Imagine the uproar if they decided to uproot an entire train crew depot and deposit it in a field in the middle of nowhere, and the reasons behind it. The same principle applies to signallers.

 

[LowLevel]

Not much consolation for those who work there unfortunately.

Imagine the uproar if they decided to uproot an entire train crew depot and deposit it in a field in the middle of nowhere, and the reasons behind it. The same principle applies to signallers.

It was in use for nearly 50 years and no one seemed particularly unhappy. It isn't in a field in the middle of nowhere, that would have been Bellwater Junction. It shut in 2013. It was between Derby and Nottingham (on the edge of Long Eaton) and connected perfectly well by road. Not being adjacent to an actual station didn't seem to be an issue any more than Toton Yard not having a station was one.

 

[godfreycomplex]

Why was Trent in the middle of nowhere?

Wasn't the Gospel Oak to Barking Line controlled from a PSB named after a junction rather than a station?

South Tottenham Junction (which controls Crouch Hill to Wanstead Park) is indeed at the junction. Which, by happy coincidence, is immediately next to the station

 

[Taunton]

The London Underground control centre at Cobourg Street, a back street west of Euston, which lasted I think 50 years from the late 1960s, and possibly still serving a purpose, was in a completely anonymous and near-windowless building, only given away by the No Parking signs outside being in Johnston font! Seemingly nowhere near any other Underground facility, it is actually on the site of a working shaft for the Victoria Line construction.

 

[MadMac]

Greenhill Junction and Cadder were nowhere near any station.

 

[D6130]

But in terms of modern boxes now Trent has gone Basingstoke ROC must take the cake.

Would the West Midlands Signalling Centre not be further away from New Street....or is it closer to Adderley Park as the crow flies than Basingstoke ROC is to its station?

Greenhill Junction and Cadder were nowhere near any station.

IIRC, Cadder was only about half a mile from Lenzie station.

 

[MadMac]

IIRC, Cadder was only about half a mile from Lenzie station.

Quick Google Earth gives it as just over 3/4 mile. I’ll happily revise my “nowhere near” to “somewhat distant from”

I believe it had one big interlocking too rather than local ones.

Indeed, as did Saltley. The functions were transmitted/received over the Vital Reed Frequency Division Multiplex system.

 

[TSG]

Would the West Midlands Signalling Centre not be further away from New Street....or is it closer to Adderley Park as the crow flies than Basingstoke ROC is to its station?

I don't know the WMSC but it appears to be 0.3 miles from Duddeston station. BROC is 0.8 miles from Basingstoke station but somehow it feels like further....

 

[Omnishambles]

I don't know the WMSC but it appears to be 0.3 miles from Duddeston station. BROC is 0.8 miles from Basingstoke station but somehow it feels like further....

Duddeston for WMSC. whilst both were open it was turn left at the bottom of the hill for WMSC and right for Saltley PSB, 5min walk