The FARSAP (Film Archive of Railway Signalling and People) archive has recently had even more additions to add to its already impressive list of free films. The team have just added Ferrybridge signal box which is an NX (Entrance/Exit signalling system) panel. Then there is Diggle Junction lever frame signal box which was decommissioned in August 2025 and later demolished. It was at the south end of the famous Standedge Tunnel over three miles long under the Pennines between Lancashire and Yorkshire. The signal box at Castleford, West Yorkshire has also been added. It replaced five signal boxes under the Project EROS (Early Replacement of Signalling) scheme. Heritage railway signalling is represented by five videos of the Llangollen Railway in North Wales which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2025. Included are Carrog signal box, Llangollen station signal box, Llangollen Goods signal box, Corwen ground frame and Glyndyfrdwy signal box. This former Great Western Railway passenger and goods line closed in the late 1960s and is now operating again as a major tourist attraction. You can see train working, Tyer’s key token and block instruments, bells, cow horns, king levers and lever frames in use.












The FARSAP Signalling Film Archive Has a New Website.

The Film Archive of Railway Signalling and People (FARSAP) is still growing.  After benefiting from a page on the Signalling Record Society website for the last 12 years, we now have our own website under the auspices of the FNRM.  Please make a note and update your browsing records where needed; the site can now be accessed at:  www.farsap.co.uk  The appearance of the website hasn’t changed yet, so will be familiar to regular users. If you do click on the SRS site, for the time being, there is a link to direct you to the new site. We would like to thank John Lacy, the SRS webmaster, most sincerely for all his work setting up the original FARSAP webpage on the SRS website, then maintaining it and adding films as they were edited. Furthermore, he set up the new website on our behalf before handing it over which is very much appreciated. Nick Jones, who has been an active member since the project started in 2012, has kindly agreed to be the new FARSAP webmaster and is already adding new films. Derek Young has done a great job for us as film editor for several years, but he is planning to step down no later than March 2026.  Therefore, we would be pleased to hear from anyone who has editing skills that they would be prepared to share with us.


FARSAP Latest Releases.

Our new website is continuing to prove popular with links to films of well over 200 selected signalling locations. The FARSAP team have recently added films of Bridlington signal box when it still had a traditional lever frame and then after a new NX panel had been installed in its place. Attention has recently turned to West Yorkshire where Wakefield Kirkgate Signalling Centre the nearby Crofton Crossings, Horbury Junction, Woolley Coal Siding and Prince of Wales signal boxes have all been recorded. Heritage railway signalling in Wales is now represented by a comprehensive set of films taken at the Llangollen Railway (Llangollen Station, Llangollen Goods, Glyndyfrdwy, Carrog and Corwen). More films are in course of editing, including the Peterborough area, Stockport, and the Tokenless Block system on the York to Knaresborough line.