Showing posts with label signalbox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label signalbox. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

'A' Box Demolished and Other Changes at Wellington, NZ Terminal

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About a year ago I reported on the closure of Wellington A Box, the last operating main line signalbox in all of New Zealand. This week one ...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Last Traditional Signalbox Closes in New Zealand

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Word has come down that Wellington A Signalbox has closed. Constructed in 1937 in conjunction with the Hutt Valley 1.5kv DC suburban electr...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

A Tale of Two British Railway Signaling Public Information Films

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 The UK is well known for a certain style of public information film that were professionally produced up through the 1980's. A couple g...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

British Power Signaling Channel Heads Down Under

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About seven years ago I discovered the Youtube channel of one Ian Ives , who had posted a variety of VHS era videos from inside British pow...
Friday, January 14, 2022

German Stellwerke Blog and Its English Mirror

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Although they have been prominent in my sidebar for many years, I wanted to give another shoutout to the German equivalent of this blog, Von...
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Sunday, August 18, 2019

UK Lickey Incline Classic Signaling

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I found an interesting video on the manual block setup on Lickey Incline , the steepest Main Line gradient on the UK.  This 2.65% grade stre...
Friday, September 7, 2018

1960's British Branch Line Cab Ride Films

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So while this is a rail signaling blog and not a railfan video blog, sometime I like to highlight sets of videos that really show off the si...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Liverpool Lime Street Signalbox Closed

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One of the last two active Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Company power frames on British Rail was taken out of service on July 13th an...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Swindon Power Signalbox Restoration

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Hopefully most of you are familiar with the excellent job the crew at HARRIS tower has done reactivating its US&S Model 14 interlocking ...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Videos from Across the Pond

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I just found a few interesting videos involving UK signalboxes.  The first two involve the Banbury North Signalbox , which was recently deco...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Wrong Railing Across the Pond

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How many Full Time Employees does it take to run a train against the flow of traffic on a section of double track manual block signaled trac...
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Monday, January 20, 2014

Call it the "Ohio CPL" and Petone Update

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I believe I have mentioned this before but CSX is taking the "Baltimore" out of B&O CPL in its latest re-signaling project tha...
Sunday, December 8, 2013

Petone (New Zealand) Signalbox to Close

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I don't normally do foreign (non-North America) signaling news simply because there is so much of it and it would require all sorts of e...
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