mrfs42
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Post by mrfs42 on Feb 12, 2009 0:12:54 GMT
Anyone out there got a copy of 'The Big Tube' to hand? (Mine is still in Wales - forgot to bring it with me  ). If you have, there is a photograph of the lever frame somewhere in the book - could someone please either do me a quick scan of the picture or answer the following question....... Are 'levers' 6,7,8 and 12, 13, 14 without levers (spaces) in the picture - if not which ones were? Answers or a scan would be most gratefully received..... |
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Post by Tom on Feb 12, 2009 1:28:45 GMT
I'm not entirely sure where my copy is. However, a former colleague was a Drayton Park signalman and has some photos online here |
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Post by Harsig on Feb 12, 2009 9:12:31 GMT
Anyone out there got a copy of 'The Big Tube' to hand? (Mine is still in Wales - forgot to bring it with me ). If you have, there is a photograph of the lever frame somewhere in the book - could someone please either do me a quick scan of the picture or answer the following question....... Are 'levers' 6,7,8 and 12, 13, 14 without levers (spaces) in the picture - if not which ones were? Answers or a scan would be most gratefully received..... The picture shows SPARE LEVERS as 6,7,8,18,19,20,21,22,23,25,31,32 & 34 and SPACES as 12,13,14,15,16 |
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Post by Harsig on Feb 12, 2009 9:20:54 GMT
I'm not entirely sure where my copy is. However, a former colleague was a Drayton Park signalman and has some photos online hereHaving now compared these pictures with the one in the Book it seems that at some stage the release lever has moved. The picture in 'The Big Tube' clearly shows it as being No. 30 whereas this picture shows that it is No. 31. |
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Post by mrfs42 on Feb 12, 2009 10:17:33 GMT
Tom thank-you for the pointer to those pictures - I found them last night when trying to answer this.  Harsig marvellous; thank-you very much; looks like what I thought was allocated to the 'yard' at Drayton Park (in the New Works plan) was in reality the 'spaces'. Hmm..... <more thought> I knew about the release lever moving, as I'd made a note of that before I left Wales - as ever the imponderable 'why'? crops up. ;D It is both interesting *and* annoying that what Westinghouse planned in terms of the lever allocations very rarely matched up to reality. SSSSssssssSSSSSsssssss. Oh well, that's what makes signalling absorbing!
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