Fiskerton Junction Signal Box and Freightliner Coal

More fuel for the West Midlands, normally oil is the staple traffic on this route but over the last few weeks coal has returned in sizeable quantities. Currently there's a steady programme of coal from Immingham Bulk to Ratcliffe and Rugeley. Here 66597 is seen passing Fiskerton Junction box at 1540 on 6M51 the 1145 Immingham Dock - Rugeley Power Station. Thursday 26th July 2012. Fiskerton Junction is located between Newark and Nottingham. The boxes days are numbered and is due to be abolished in 2015.
The box is a real step back in time, wheel worked gates, no track circuits and set in a lovely part of Nottinghamshire.
I always struggle to believe I get paid for this :)

[@ProfessorPesca]

Lovely little video, thanks for making it. Looks like your home signal wire was a bit hot that day!

[@stephenrice4554]

Nice location , smart box . Good video 👍🇬🇧

[@mikeryan3701]

Many thanks for sharing that video. I had the pleasure of visiting the box (from the outside, of course) on 26th April, 2016, just a few months before closure. It's great to have as much visual recording of signal/gate boxes before they (sadly) go.

[@peterbuckley265]

AS USUAL, DISGUSTINGLY THE SIGNAL BOX CLOSURE NOT ADVERTISED, SO UNLAWFULLY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM PHOTOGRAPHING THE BOX BEFORE IT CLOSED, THAT I HAVE JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT, 21/MAR.2017. BUT IS IT STILL STANDING HOPEFULLY, SO WHEN I AM MOBILE AGAIN, AFTER HAVING JUST NOW LOST MY LEFT FOOT AND LOWER LEG TO POLIO AND RHEUMATIC FEVER, I WILL HOPEFULLY GET A CHANCE OF GETTING PHOTOGRAPHS OF IT MYSELF. BUT IF IT HAS GONE, NETWORK RAIL HAS UNLAWFULLY PREVENTED ME FROM GETTING MY OWN PHOTOS AND NEEDS AN OFFICIAL BOLLOCKING AND REPRIMAND AS SIGNAL BOXES ARE ALL OUR NATION HERITAGE AND SO NETWORK RAIL HAVE A LEGAL OBLIGATION TO PUBLICISE NATIONALY ALL SIGNAL BOX COSURES AND IF THEY DO NOT THEY ARE SERIOUSLY BREAKING THE LAW.

[@mikeryan3701]

Peter, Send a Freedom of Information request to Network Rail and ask them to tell you their planned closures for twelve (or whatever) months ahead. I did that in January 2016 and so I knew that this box was due for closure later in the year. The website Signal Box also has closures for the years up to 2035 but their information isn't always correct. I missed three boxes by relying on the Signal Box information. They were closed a year or two after Signal Box stated and I thought I had missed them when I hadn't. By the time I discovered that it was too late.

[@mikeryan3701]

BTW, Network Rail must supply the information you ask for within a certain period of time. My experience is that they wait until the last possible moment even though they could have supplied the information much sooner.

[@tracya4087]

@@peterbuckley265 hear hear

[@Luigi-uj5ml]

Good evening, it is not yet entirely clear to me whether those old electric block systems (Absolute block system, if I am not mistaken) with a wooden case were or were not influenced by the passage of trains for the purpose of occupying and freeing the section (block) towards to which and from which the train was respectively headed or from which the train came. Furthermore, it is not clear whether there is an electrical connection between the lever that controls the opening (switching from Danger to Clear) of the starting signal and the apparatus with wooden case. In other words, was it possible to pull the lever that activated the starting signal towards you without first having received electrical consent from the next station? However, it is common ground that where there is a token block it is possible to activate the lever that opens the starting signal even before having handed over the token to the driver, unless there is an error on my part. Thank you very much for your availability and collaboration

[@nurmuhammadfahrudin1320]

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[@armendrahman3093]

Hello Mr, u' re great job. Where are you from?

[@madmax200769]

Nice video. There seems to be an awful lot of junk on the block shelf though. I don't think the inspectors would have tolerated it in my day. We had a green pinboard for the stuff at the back of the box. It must be utterly sweltering in summer with double-glazing! Does Morton Crossing still exist down below?

[@spathak7309]

Qq

[@pavolplaysgames3925]

where is the cloth to operate the levers? :P

[@johnillingworth1047]

No cloth, yet to work in a box that uses them

[@exb.r.buckeyeman845]

@@johnillingworth1047 The Signalman at St Erth Cornwall, would have two cloths under his feet and would polish the floor as he slid around.

[@D.music85]

@@johnillingworth1047 just use them anyway, save the shine!

[@FurthermoreJack]

Still bent on that guy using his cloth in the other vid

[@TheosTrainsWalesOfficial]

So you were the signalman here?

[@johnillingworth1047]

Yes. C'est moi 👍

[@AnandParkash-xx4xd]

Har har Mahadev