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7 March 2010

Signalling Record Society

News & Announcements

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Dumfries Visit

The postponed visit to the Dumfries area will now take place on the 26 April. More details here.

[19-02-2010]

Signalling Atlas

The 2010 edition of the Atlas is expected to be published in March or April. More details here.

[12-02-2010]

Cundalls Auctions

Cundalls will be auctioning parts of the late Chris Wolstenholme' collection at Malton on Saturday 20 February 2010. The sale has been postponed from 9 January because of the weather conditions. More of Chris' items will be in their sales in April and June. More details here.

[07-01-2010]

Signal Box Diagrams

GW Sections A and B are in course of preparation with an planned release date of March 2010. They will be issued on two separate CDs. More details here.

[04-01-2010]

Web Site Move

The Society's Web Site now has its own fully fledged domain rather than being hosted as a sub-domain by one of the members. The change took place on 25 November. Despite careful planning and sequencing, circumstances outside the control of the Society conspired to disrupt the smooth transition with the result that the site became invisible for a time after 1530 hours. We apologise if this caused you any inconvenience.

If you have bookmarked any specific pages, please ensure your bookmark is updated to http://www.s-r-s.org.uk/ pagename.

[26-11-2009]

Signal Box Diagrams

The Southern Sections M, N and R box diagrams CD is now available. GW Sections A and B are in course of preparation with an planned release date of March 2010. More details here.

[18-11-2009]

Swift Series

Volumes 11 & 13 are now available again. More details here.

[13-10-2009]

Newsletter Copy

Members are reminded of the regular deadlines for sending in items for inclusion in the newsletter. These are set out here. Items can be sent through the web site here.

[23-08-2009]

Signal Box Diagrams

The GW Sections G, R and S box diagrams CD will contain several new items, not previously available, as well as the SRS box diagrams for the area: the new items include Bordesley South dog chart and 'cutaway' view of mechanical locking, Kingham SRS style diagram for 1949 and 1958 as well as a box-style diagram for 1949, SRS-style diagrams for Malvern Wells (1954) and Handsworth Junction (1956) also a hand drawn diagram of Kidderminster Station (BR) as at 1971 and box-style diagrams for Kidderminster Station (SVR) (2009) and Tramway Junction (October 1967). More details here.

[20-08-2009]

Members' Visits

Visit to Clacton & Colchester is being arranged for December 2009. Details on the Calendar page.

[12-08-2009]

SRS "In Print" Items

Reports can now be submitted through the web site here.

[10-07-2009]

SRS Photographic Catalogue

The Society's Photographic Catalogue is now available on line. More details here.

[02-07-2009]

Howard-Turner Prize 2008

This prize is awarded every two years for the best technical article appearing in The Signalling Record for the year in question. For 2008 the judges, John Francis and David Stirling, found some difficulty in judging between several excellent articles. In the end they were most impressed by John Creed's article, "Early Trials with Axle Counters on the SR", which is therefore awarded the J. T. Howard-Turner Prize for 2008.

John Creed's article deals with a technical topic in an interesting and accessible way, including some of the internal railway issues associated with it. Detection of trains is so fundamental to any signalling system that we tend to take it for granted, although occasionally this trust is rudely shaken by changes elsewhere on the railway system. The SR was having to deal with one of these challenges, where conventional track circuits could not be relied on in certain tunnels.

Congratulations to John on winning this well-deserved award. We look forward to future years when there are equally strong fields of contenders.

[01-07-2009]

Signal Box Diagrams

Southern Sections A & B are now available for purchase. Great Western Sections G, R & S expected in August. More details here.

[27-06-2009]

New Index Pages

A start has been made on making the detail indexes to the Archive Boxes available on this web site. See more here.

A start has also been made on making the "In Print" information from the Signalling Record also available on this web site. See more here.

[09-06-2009]

Signal Box Diagrams

Southern list has been updated and the LMSR - LNER list is now available in electronic form.

[13-05-2009]

New Web Site

The new web site of the Signalling Record Society went live on 3 May 2009. Our thanks indeed to Tim Bourne for running the previous web site and for ensuring a smooth transition.

[03-05-2009]

Signal Box Registers

Volume 4, Southern Railway, of the Signal Box Registers is now available for purchase. Details on the Signal Box Register Page in the Bookstall area.

[29-04-2009]

Signal Box Diagrams

The Southern List of signal box layout drawings has been added to the Drawings Page

Digitised versions of the drawings are becoming available on CD-Rom very shortly. First out is Great Western section M Swansea District, then followed by Southern sections A & B South Eastern. The longer term plan is a new section added every 3 to 4 months for some 3 years. More details here.

[23-04-2009]