British Railway Network & Signal Boxes

June 7, 2015June 7, 2015KendalDrac 1 Comment

Network Rail currently operates around 500 signal boxes ranging from the modern-day power boxes to the traditional mechanical lever frame boxes. A quick scan through the list of operational signal boxes shows there are still many mechanical lever frame boxes in operation on the British railway network with a wide variance in size and age…

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Nottingham Victoria Shopping Centre – What Lies Beneath

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Edward takes a look at the footprint of Nottingham Victoria station and how it influenced the construction of a shopping centre in the city.

Nottingham Victoria Shopping Centre – What Lies Beneath

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CAS Weekly 01/06/15

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Sierra Leone Railway Museum

Modelling

Check out modeller Gordon Ross’s enormous garden railway.
O Gauge RTR Peckett 0-4-0 coming soon.

UK Rail

Good News! The on-again-off-again Network Strike is now suspended! Well, for now anyway…
Where does all the earth and spoil go from the Crossrail Tunnels?
Need to escape from London? Here’s how far you can get on a train.
Fanfare Alert: The London Overground takeover has started!…
Meanwhile, contractors get the name of one of the re-branded stations wrong…
…whilst analysis of the new Overground-heavy Tube map continues to rumble on.
Secrets of Paddington Station by The Londonist’s Geoff Marshall.
The Leeds locomotive that found a new life in Sierra Leone.
A brand new (albeit tiny) heritage line opened in East Yorkshire this week.
View the full report from the recent Great Central Railway runaway.
Break in at the Bure Valley Railway.
LocoYard take a look at an incredibly rare L&YR Class A.
Is the train of the future from Rolls-Royce?

World Rail

50 years on and France is having it’s own go at The Beeching Report…
Buy your own part of Australia’s Railway heritage.

From The CAS Team

Horses and The Railways.

Compiled by Edward Kendall and Andy Carter.

CAS Weekly 24/05/15

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Chingford: Soon to be turning Orange. Image by Sunil060902

UK Rail

Good news, the bank holiday rail strikes have been called off!
Not to worry, London Underground might go on strike instead.
King’s Cross had to be evacuated on Friday.
New stuff has opened this week on the National Rail network including this station at Ebbw Vale…
…as well as the The Todmorden Curve.
TfL have also released a brand new tube map showing us what the Overground take over of the Lea Valley Lines will look like. It’s a total mess.
…you can read the history of the routes on London Reconnections.
Speaking of The Overground, did you know it has a secret station? Find out in this video from The Londonist.
Remember how Southern altered their time table to stop the problem of their ‘never-on-time‘ train? They might have a lot more work still to do...
The unsung role of The Southern Railway during Operation Dynamo.
The 1905 Quintinshill Disaster is remembered in Scotland.
Another blow for heritage safety records as a Class 37 goes run-away at the Great Central Railway.
Proposed Leicester Railway Museum gets Lottery Grant.
Do you want to see a 3D scan of London’s Mail Rail? Of course you do.

World Rail

Why US train drivers are called Engineers.
France’s SNCF have been given permission to take full control of the Eurostar brand.

From the CAS Team

Accrington Station: From Triangles to Tesco.
Langstead Junction up for sale!
Grangemouth Ineos to Sinfin Sidings:

Compiled by Edward Kendall & Andy Carter

CAS Weekly 17/05/15

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Image By Matthew Black

Modelling

Hornby are to re-release Thomas The Tank Engine sets to mark the 70th birthday of the fictional character.

UK Rail

Network Rail workers could go on strike tomorrow over pay. Let the chaos ensue!
Take a look inside the Farnworth Tunnels, part of the North West Electrification project.
Siemens unveil 125mph EMU proposed for services in the UK.
Check out ScotRails unusual idea to combat overcrowding.
Train cuts tractor in half at Knaresborough level crossing incident.
A replica Royal 1869 coach is saved by firefighters as a preserved station in Ballater is gutted by fire.
Southern Rail final fixes the Train That’s Never On Time. (By fiddling the time table).
Like your ale? How about a Northern Line themed pint?
Geoff Marshall’s adventure in abandoned Down Street station.
Join the Great Central Railway as they host The Prototype HST (41001) and it’s first public heritage run next weekend!

World Rail

A fatal train derailment in Philadelphia this week could have been caused by an object thrown at the train.
Sydney Trains are using new ground breaking tech to tackle railway graffiti.
If you think that the HS2 project is a gigantic cock-up, at least our European neighbours are suffering from similar mismanagement.

From The CAS Team

Edward’s takes a trip on the rare Nottingham-Lincoln Newark-Reverser service.
Whilst Andy explores the Bluebell Railway.

Compiled by Edward Kendal & Andy Carter
Feature Image (Farnworth Tunnel) By David Ingham

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British Railway Network & Signal Boxes

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