Signalling: LNER Broomfield Park box

[railfan99]

Watching a 12 minute video that's perhaps from about 1947 called 'Absolute Block Signalling', placed on YouTube by Exeter West Group, it featured an LNER small signal box allegedly called Broomfield Park Station.

I couldn't find a reference to that (former) station anywhere.

Where was it on LNER's then tracks?.

There was one colour light signal shown so perhaps the video was post-nationalisation (1948) with the box's signal diagram not having had 'LNER' removed.

 

[Gloster]

I can find no station or signal box with that name, so perhaps they changed the name of a real box so that it could represent ‘Anytown‘. There is a Broomfield Park just west of Palmers Green station, so perhaps they used the box there or Bounds Green: the signalling diagrams are on .signalbox.org, but are a bit short of colour light signals.

Signalling diagrams could take a while to have the old railway company’s abbreviations removed: I think some lasted unchanged into the 1960s

 

[SuspectUsual]

There never was a real Broomfield Park signal box, the LNER filmed in Palmers Green box but used a fictionalised name (there is a Broomfield Park nearby)

 

[railfan99]

Thank you Gloster and SteveM70.

What year do you believe the film was made?

 

[Clarence Yard]

If this is the Verity Films one (which, iirc it is), then it was commissioned in 1946.

 

[Gloster]

Having had a look at the film, I wonder if the box interior is either a film set or a dressed training school frame: notable is that there only appear to be windows in the end, although this might be a hangover from the war, and the scene beyond the window looks odd. Nor do the lever leads fit with Palmer Green’s 1960 signalling diagram, but it could have been replaced.

The various short views, including the colour light, look as though they have been taken at various locations, probably at the south end of the GN system. The station does look as though it is Palmers Green.