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27 July 2010

Signalling Record Society

News & Announcements

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George Pryer's Signal Box Diagrams

The Society has been authorised to reprint George's series of 27 volumes. Work is now under way to review the content to incorporate information that has come to light since they were originally published. More information will be given in due course.

[30-06-2010]

Signalling Atlas

The 2010 edition of the Atlas was published in April. More details here.

[23-04-2010]

Dumfries Visit

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

[19-02-2010]

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]

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]

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]

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]