Bolton Abbey (a work in progress)

We take a look at the signalling in progress at the terminus of the Embsay and Bolton Abbey railway land line and see both the current and the planned works to bring the dear lights and power frame eventually into use.
Our thanks goes to Peter Burke for showing us around the site and letting us see what’s there and what work is ongoing.

[@syncrostep]

I have Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Co style K frame serial K24 in my collection in New Zealand, which uses the same Hambay Cross Locking. James T. Hambay of the Union Switch and Signal Co., Pennsylvania was awarded US Patent 406212 on July 2nd 1899 for this system of locking. My K frame has the the same locking as the patent but with slight differences probably due to being manufactured 27 years after the patent date and being made in Chippenham UK. My frame has solid bronze levers which seem to be finer than the steel levers of the style B frame. Fortunately all 24 levers were in perfect condition when I dismantled the frame from Papatoetoe, Auckland in 1989. I have been fortunate to have found some spare parts over the years - 6 spare levers were found in a garage sale at a private house in the mid 90's. A length of wire on which was strung 100 new catch handles was found during a fossicking trip in NZR's Kaiwharawhara Interlocking fitters shop in the early '90s plus a 4" box of spare locking dogs, some new and uncut, were found when Wanganui Relay Repair Depot was closed around 1993. When Newmarket Relay Repair depot in Auckland was closed, I found a K frame bridle iron, complete with dogs, heading for scrap and that has been kept as well. My frame has been returned to service in a museum, complete with 1920s vintage AC relays but has a computer base simulator playing trains with the interlocking machine instead of a real railway. 40 years sgo I bought a Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Co., searchight head relay exactly like the Union H2 in your video, from the South Australian Railway's reclaim store in Adelaide for $5. It is in mint condition and I doubt that it was ever used. No one in the SAR knew anything about the relay and there was no cast iron case for the relay. NZR never used Union searchlights so I have never managed to find a signal head to put the relay in. Congratulations on restoring your style B frame. I loved the shelf full of Q relays waiting for their turn in service. Please keep the searchlight signals working as they are now being replaced with LED signals at a very rapid rate and will shortly be extinct. Keep up the good work. Regards Ken

[@ChapelEndJunctionUK]

Great to see this after visiting and riding on the train this Tuesday with our grandsons .

[@TokyoNightGirl-fk4cn]

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