Peterborough Power Signal Box | Half a Century of Signalling Excellence.

[@user-ir5nf5xi7j]

Fantastic upload. I was born in Peterborough 68 years ago. My late father was a relief signalman on the ECML and many of an evening trip was spent in Yaxley, Helpston and Tallington signal boxes. I also noticed in a couple of your photos Peterborough Power Station was seen. Brilliant!

[@darrenhillman8396]

Cracking video,Dan! Really interesting, but more so because I was S&T in the Liverpool area for 41 years, with BR / Jarvis / Network Rail and retired in 2018. Lovely tribute to all the bobbies that have worked the panel. I could never get used to calling you chaps (and ladies) “signaller”! But I am old-fashioned! Best wishes from a retired railwayman!

[@stephensutcliffe1555]

Thank you very much for the upload.

[@marklee7565]

As an LNER Driver I found this a fantastic and very informative video! Us drivers wish you were still at Pboro as moving to York ROC hasn’t been for the greater good.

[@roblane6368]

Interesting comment from a driver. I was on our local station filming last year and I noticed a number of occasions where wrong routes had been set for trains, and one case where a class 1 express had been brought to a halt as the route had been set for a class 2 and the level crossing wasn't tripped until the train approached. This all in a couple of hours. Signalling had recently been moved from Port Talbot panel to Cardiff ROC.

[@SimonPJohnson]

Great video Dan. I took that photo from Crescent Bridge of the Deltic-hauled train and Crescent Junction SB in 1972 or early 1973 (and not 1969). I visited the PSB in the mid-1970s with my father, thanks to Malcolm Heugh.

[@richardvoogd705]

Nice choice of music at the end. R.i.p. Tom Petty & Roy Orbison.

[@stephendavies6949]

What a lovely, touching video. I suitable salute to the people who have worked in what is now a piece of our railway heritage. Nicely and tastefully done. Good luck for the future.

[@MrVinnyh]

A great insight to history of Peterborough Power box Dan, I spent a brief few days spotting there at the station. I would like to say thank you to you and your few workers for safe passage of many a train.

[@kevinmothers904]

Thank you Dan and fellow signalers for your commitment to rail safety. On many occasions over the decades I have watched my girlfriend (now wife), children, friends and relations depart from Peterborough and head back to either Newcastle, Leeds, London or elsewhere. Their safe passage in this sector of the ECML was up to you, yet how many travellers give signalers a second thought? Many thanks to you all.

[@danielkingham9045]

Absolutely amazing footage,,,thanks very much for sharing your precious memories with us all 👍are such closures also been the same at Doncaster,Preston and Carlisle PSBs ? Good luck with any fourth coming clips

[@Dilly-lp3zz]

Great tribute to the PSB Dan. It’s been a pleasure working there over the years. Brilliant to see some of the old boys (along with a more youthful, less grey glimpse of myself!) in the last five minutes and a top choice of backing track. Well done!

[@werringtonjunction]

Excellent commentry and insight into Peterborough Power Box. Thank you for sharing Dan and I hope you and your collegues futures are safe. We often say you must have been using a dart board at times to path those trains in odd sequences but as there was no sign of one in the video I guess it must all be down to your skill.👍

[@JPSteamMediaTM]

Thank you for posting this, a sensational watch. Jack.

[@smithy4869]

Great video, excellent material, tasteful and heartfelt sign-off. Well done. Keep up the model train videos. Regards from Smithy in Toowoomba, Australia 🇦🇺

[@TheDaf95xf]

Thanks Dan. That was really interesting and informative 👍🏻 Like everything progresses gets in the way 😢 I’m not a railway man but a train enthusiast. In the 70s when it was sort of permitted I spent a lot of my school holidays in Woodley signal box and as I got a little older I visited more signal boxes. One of my favourite boxes I visited was Skelton junction. I never joined the railway as I didn’t think I was clever enough 🙄 I’m 66 now so watching things like this is fantastic 👍🏻

[@robf5684]

Great video, Dan. I worked in the PSB on the Trust desk from 1994-1999, and hung out of that window trainspotting many times. Nice to see many old faces I worked with in the musical bit at the end 😀

[@BerlietGBC]

What a excellent presentation Dan, thank you

[@andrewhensley6189]

Very informative, thank you for sharing

[@johnstanton5828]

Wow what a really good insight I remember going up to and in it as a new guard and being shown the intricate workings of a Bobby it is yet another monument lost on our railways R.I.P. Peterborough Power Box.

[@Teesbrough]

Dan, many thanks for this invaluable little piece of technical and social history. And of course for all the dedication and hard work you and your colleagues have put into making our journeys run smoothly through Peterborough for the last half Century. Personally, I struggle to imagine how staring at cluttered computer screens several Counties away is progress. All best wishes for New England or wherever else you’re now headed.

[@NorthumberlandSnapper]

Many, many thanks Dan for going to the effort of chronicling the life of the PSB. There can't be many left on the ECML now - just Doncaster I think. It really is the end of an era.

[@katiegriffin9882]

Very proud of you bro! xx

[@ChangesOneTim]

Brilliant video with plenty of the 'human touch'. Wish that film of other closing PSBs could be put together by their teams, although understandably many siggies wouldn't want to do so.

[@suelizstone]

Came across your video by chance today - looking for date of opening of the power signal box- only to find it's just closed! Long story, but Ive just come home from the picture framers - framing a 1970 signalling diagram Peterborough to Grantham done by my Dad, Alan Roulstone who was Area Signalling Engineer around that time. I can remember him taking me to the PSB when it first opened!

[@suelizstone]

actually the diagram was Kings Cross to Grantham

[@xlaptopx]

Great video, thanks for uploading. I wonder what my past rail family (Swains) would have made of that.

[@michaelward2082]

I visited the box in 1974, if I remember right, the date would be in my diary...

[@michaelward2082]

I have met the guy at 17.19 with the ginger hair several times.

[@44662dc]

Lovely video Dan are you continuing your railway career in another position.

[@dansmodelrailways7886]

Yes mate, I’m going to signal at Eastfield box, i worked there before promotion to the power box.

[@tulyar1043]

​@@dansmodelrailways7886 You may well need a matchette to get to the box Lol!!! Honestly, how the veg has been allowed to get out of control is simply down to management not doing their job. It was so different back in 1998 when I was track inspector up there.

[@michaelward2082]

Did you ever speak to Ken Setchfield, on the phone, the Kings Dyke signalman?

[@dansmodelrailways7886]

Not that i’m aware of, unfortunately alot of the time they are just voices on the phone