Electric train staff equipment had been brought into use between Blisworth and Towcester by 9 August 1910 (date of SMJR minute 451 (TNA file RAIL 674/3)) and presumably the new signal box at Blisworth appeared at the same time. In that this was so…Continue
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SMJ board minute 1474 of 13 April 1921 (TNA file RAIL 674/4) approved that “the following expenditure be charged to Capital” for year 1920: “Blisworth: Signalling and alterations to Permanent Way, Improvements and additional signalling: £800”. In…Continue
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Did this railway (as opposed to the East & West Junction Railway) go into receivership - if so, when. And when did it come out of receivership?Continue
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Shall we bring this discussion under the proper heading!So far as the OS plan surveyed 1885, published 1886, is concerned: the OS liked - wherever they could - to have text running parallel to the top and bottom borders. When they came to add the…Continue
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Thanks guys for the very helpful comments. I've checked out a few other photos of Midland signal boxes and I can see the similarities (fillets in the corners of the windows, type of boarding and brackets bracing the platform at the top of the stairs. Are any photos of the box at Hardingstone known? Les
Have narrowed it down a bit if its somewhere on the Northampton - Bedford route as seems likely considering some of Les' other negatives show Hardingstone. Have ruled out Bedford Road (tiny LNWR box), Hardingstone Junction (LNWR style box), Ravenstone Junction (from photographic evidence - wrong way around), Olney (brick base). This would leave Barry's suggestion of Piddington as number one possibility and Turvey (definitely all wooden Midland stye but much further away from Hardingstone) second most likely. Have I missed out any boxes? Just the top of Piddington box roof can be seen on the Around Northampton DVD, frustratingly the rest is hidden behind a train, I haven't found a still picture of it.
Dick
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