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In fact, almost all of the signals in the Pickering station area are colurlights, controlled from the lever frame in New Bridge box which is located about one mile north of the station. There are three semaphore arms in the Up (towards Pickering) direction; the outer home signal is motorised...

Modern point motors are fitted with point locks regardless of whether they are on facing or trailing points, so there should be no requirement to clip them. Signaller's permission (maybe MOM's as well?) should be sufficient.

Thanks. Interesting stuff. I suppose we'll just have to wait until more definite details emerge.

Like you, I thought that RETB was obsolete, but I've just discovered that Park Signalling did an upgrade of the RETB in Scotland a few years ago. Maybe they could provide the equipment.

RETB and not ETCS,? That's interesting, given that ETCS is supposed to be the future for signalling systems. RETB or ECTS would cause additional expense for the NYMR though, having to fit additional equipment into several locos if running to Whitby from Grosmont is to continue. Track Circuit...

The user group is now "The Esk Valley Railway Development Company", and Alan Williams is the Chairman of the Board. His wife is General Manager. See: https://www.eskvalleyrailway.co.uk/board-of-directors/: Digressing slightly, Alan Williams has his own railway, "The Moorlands Railway", in the...

Also NYMR New Bridge box, 1 mile north of Pickering station on the road to Newton-on-Rawcliffe. Gates operated by a wheel in the box. See: https://www.flickr.com/photos/llangollen_signalman/5755439043/in/album-72157626672797127

Since the upgrading of Dore & Totley station for the re-doubling of the Dore curve, the station has been provided with reproduction totems. See: https://unltdbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Dore-canopy-scaled.jpg The interesting thing is the colour - London Midland region maroon. The...

The bridge over the M1 is single track width. The railway between Summer Lane and Dodworth was singled in 1967 when it was diverted to allow the roundabout at Junction 37 of the M1 to be built. It's worth noting too that when the track was relaid a few years ago, it took the "racing line"...

I'm acessing the service via the Libby app on either my mobile or a tablet, both running Android. PressReader is shown as an "extra" within Libby, and selecting it produces the following link...

Although my library gives me access to Presreader via Libby, I find that the majority of publications listed above appear as just the cover page only. The remaining pages are obscured and bear a key symbol, indicating that a subscription is required. That seems to indicate that there are...

I've not been able to find RAIL in Pressreader, and that's after using the search facility. Does the choice of magazines depend on the subscriptions taken up by your registered local library, I wonder?

Thanks! Presumably the Darton services are crossing back at Woolley as running through to Horbury would require using the defective crossing?

Can anyone in the know elaborate on this please? Clearly it is more than just a broken rail in plain line, and is most likely a component of switches & crossings that has failed. It would be interesting to know a bit more, especially which points are affected in order to understand why the...

NYMR's New Bridge box (north of Pickering station) has a pair of gates operated by a wheel on a long skew crossing over the road to Newton on Rawcliffe. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pickering_MMB_02_North_Yorkshire_Moors_Railway_(Newbridge_level_crossing).jpg

Thanks for that.

Does anyone know why "NOGO" is currently posted in the train describer at HJ74 signal on the Up Slow line? It has been like that for a few weeks, and Up trains are currently using the Up Fast instead.

In my neck of the woods, Northern have decided to terminate the Nottingham to Leeds and Lincoln to Leeds via Sheffield and Barnsley services at Sheffield "because of the forecasted severe weather", which is due this afternoon. However, the hourly Leeds and Huddersfield stopping services are...

You may find the following two links of interest: https://www.orr.gov.uk/about/who-we-work-with/railway-networks/minor-heritage-railways...

The latest version of the Kent Sussex Wessex Sectional Appendix shows that it is still Tokenless Block between Wilton South and Tisbury Loop, worked by Salisbury box. So the reliance on brake continuity in lieu of the signalman observing the tail lamp would still seem to apply in that section.