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A Smooth Ride
In praise of excellent rolling stock and permanent way. . . . . . . 100 years ago in August 1922, the Great Western Railway was boasting...
Aug 18, 20222 min read
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Exploding for Safety
Explosive safety devices for use in poor visibility, emergencies and to protect engineering works. . . . . . . Detonators, or “Signals,...
Jun 9, 20224 min read
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Rabbits and Railways
A one-time revenue source - and unwelcome tunnellers. . . . . . . . In the days when rabbits were an important part of the national human...
Mar 29, 20223 min read
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Learning the Lessons
How a serious accident led to the development of a longstanding footplate safety warning system. . . . . . . How many times do we hear...
Mar 25, 20224 min read
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Watching the Clock
Keeping time on the Great Western Railway. . . . . . . The Great Western Railway (GWR) timetable for January 1841 explains railway time...
Mar 16, 20223 min read
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Signal Box Dreams
Signalbox life featuring Cuneo’s ‘On Early Morning Shift’ poster. . . . . . . In days gone by I volunteered to act as host for those...
Nov 27, 20213 min read
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A signal achievement
The Rutland village of Ketton, on the Peterborough to Leicester cross-country line, still retains a traditional manual signal box. Of...
Oct 30, 20212 min read
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Signalling Tales
Summary: The stories of Ted Cook, Leicester signalman. . . . . . . Well, you know how it is. It’s a cold November morning but in Ted’s...
Sep 5, 20214 min read
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31st Dec 1947 recording of the last GWR train to be signalled past one of the Reading signal boxes
This historic 1947 New Year’s Eve sound recording in a signal box at Reading, Berkshire, 36 miles from Paddington mentions that it was a...
Aug 31, 20213 min read
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A Signalling Life
The story of signalman Iain MacKenzie. . . . . . . . Several people I met while collecting oral histories mentioned ‘Iain’ as someone...
May 31, 20214 min read
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1947 Reading recording
This historic 1947 New Year’s Eve sound recording in a signal box at Reading, Berkshire, 36 miles from Paddington mentions that it was a...
Jan 30, 20213 min read
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FARSAP film archive
Northenden Junction signal box The latest additions to the Film Archive of Railway Signalling and People (FARSAP) can now be viewed....
Nov 12, 20202 min read
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Latest additions to signalling film archive
The most recent films uploaded onto the Film Archive of Railway Signalling and People (FARSAP) site give us a total of 165 signalling...
Sep 8, 20202 min read
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Borough Market Junction Signal box
This signal box originally controlled the lines between London Bridge, Cannon Street and Charing Cross/Blackfriars. It was, at the time,...
Jun 17, 20202 min read
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A Distracting Attraction!
It’s good to know that in these difficult days of distancing, isolation and worse we can get away from it all. You need move no further...
Apr 7, 20202 min read
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Signalling one of our latest projects
From time to time, the Friends of the NRM embark on new projects, researching aspects of Britain's railways which have rarely been...
Mar 5, 20201 min read
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