Coffee Pot Signals 2023
Coffee pot signals developed from the very early types of signals in use on the tube and indeed these were derived from the most simple hand held railway lamps. When exactly it was that coffee pots signals were first used on London’s underground is not known, although general consensus is…
London’s cutest signal gantry?
As an aside to London’s unique concrete signal gantries which I’ve written about a couple of times, here’s one steel gantry that defied attempts to build it in the style of many others seen on the mainline out of Waterloo! At one time nearly all the signals out of Waterloo…
Seventy years of main line signalling in London #2
The Central Section resignalling scheme which we looked at in the first part of this feature was conducted in a number of stages between 1950 and 1955 and it covered the main lines out of both London Victoria (actually Pouparts Junction) and London Bridge (actually Bricklayers Arms Junction) towards Purley…
Seventy years of main line signalling in London
The recent decommissioning of the London Bridge power box on 24th July 2020 was in many ways a missed occasion despite the fact it was the final change over of control of this part of the Southern network to Three Bridges control. Even though the power box hung on a…