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Signalling Record Society

Some Items in Cumbrian Railways Journal

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Issue	Items
2009 February	‘Threlkeld Train Register’ by Rory Wilson (CKPR; interesting historical details of staff, signalling and working for this and Troutbeck boxes derived from Train Registers covering 1959-60; b&w views of Threlkeld box and reproduction from 25in OS map (undated) showing track layout here).
Issue	Items
2008 October	‘George Grayland’ by Jean Scott-Smith (LNWR; career of a railwayman who spent most of his working life as Signalman at Shap Summit box, 1913-55; brief chronology of this period, including signalling alterations and closures of adjacent boxes; 2 b&w interior views of Shap Summit box).
2008 August	‘Shap and the Railway’ by Jean Scott-Smith (from the Shap Local History Society; covers the station and Summit, with signalling information and b&w views of each, both including the respective boxes - with the early and later boxes at the latter place).
2008 February	b&w photo of Hest Bank (LNWR) signal box.
Issue	Items
2007 October	b&w photo of Dalston Bank (Carlisle) signal box.
2007 August	b&w photos of Gaisgill, Tebay No 3 (NER) and Warcop signal boxes.
2007 May	‘Lambrigg - Sixty Years Gone’ by Peter Robinson (made infamous by the Virgin ‘Pendolino’ derailment in 2007, an earlier accident in May 1947 is recalled).
2007 February	‘The reconstruction of the Furness Railway viaducts - 1913 - 1917 (Pt2): Kent viaduct’ by John Holmes-Higgin (details of signalling associated with single line working over the viaduct, and similar details for Foxfield viaduct. signalling diagram for Kent viaduct temporary SLW).
Issue	Items
2006 October	‘The reconstruction of the Furness Railway viaducts - 1913 - 1917 (Pt1): Leven viaduct’ by John Holmes-Higgin (details of temporary Leven East and West signal boxes to enable single line working over the viaduct - but alas no photos of same). ‘An Engineer’s tale: Inspection saloon tours on the Cumbrian coast lines’ by John M Hammond (recalls S&T tours in the 1950/60s to visit the many signal boxes). Index to Cumbrian Railways Vol 8 (2004-6) - including a number of signalling articles.