Fairwood Junction
Ron Kosys
Ron Kosys
59002 seen at Fairwood Junction on 20th April 1988 with a Eastleigh-Merehead stone empties train. Copyright Ron Kosys. Notein
Many thanks Ron.
Cogload Junction
Guy Vincent
Guy Vincent
Guy writes;= I was interested to see the piece from Norman Finnimore concerning Cogload Signal Box. I well remember this box which from 1972 was a fringe box to the then new panel box at Bristol Temple Meads some 40 miles away. It was quite remote from civilisation and the only means of access was by way of the towpath of the adjacent Bridgwater and Taunton canal. There was no mains water supply and I recall that up until closure water cans were dropped off and empties collected by certain service trains, the 1010 Portsmouth Harbour-Taunton and 1425 Taunton-Bristol TM being used for this purpose on March 15th 1986,water being sent up from Taunton station.
The excellent Taunton Trains website has a set of photos taken in late 1987 showing the signal box being removed from the lineside and transported away in two sections to its new home at the Coleford Railway Museum in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Go onto the main Taunton Trains site and look first at the Memories section then under the sub-heading 'Big Change' which deals with the 1980s resignalling project. The box has been fully restored in original GWR colours and is now plated up as 'Coleford Junction Signal Box'. I shall make a visit later this year and report back.
Here are a couple of 'from the window' shots of the site of the 'box taken from a slow-moving HST on the down Bristol line in August 2017, note the access gate in the railway boundary fence (just visible in Norman's picture), the WW2 concrete pillbox and the former signalman's 'privy' still in-situ to the left of the site where the signal box formerly stood, also 'Saturn Bridge' on the adjoining canal.
With best regards, Guy Vincent
The excellent Taunton Trains website has a set of photos taken in late 1987 showing the signal box being removed from the lineside and transported away in two sections to its new home at the Coleford Railway Museum in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Go onto the main Taunton Trains site and look first at the Memories section then under the sub-heading 'Big Change' which deals with the 1980s resignalling project. The box has been fully restored in original GWR colours and is now plated up as 'Coleford Junction Signal Box'. I shall make a visit later this year and report back.
Here are a couple of 'from the window' shots of the site of the 'box taken from a slow-moving HST on the down Bristol line in August 2017, note the access gate in the railway boundary fence (just visible in Norman's picture), the WW2 concrete pillbox and the former signalman's 'privy' still in-situ to the left of the site where the signal box formerly stood, also 'Saturn Bridge' on the adjoining canal.
With best regards, Guy Vincent
Cogload signalbox site. 14th August 2014, Copyright Guy Vincent.
Cogload Junction 14th August 2014. Copyright Guy Vincent.
Many thanks Guy.