Swanage
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Swanage Signalbox today is not the original that
controlled movements in the station area during Southern Railway or BR(S) days,
but one that has been built by the present-day Swanage Railway utilizing the 40
lever frame that was previously used in Brockenhurst 'B' Signalbox.
photograph by Andy Vincent |
| The lever frame, which was made by Westinghouse Brake and
Signal Co. and is their Nº10827.
photograph by Chris Osment |
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Not a view that is seen very often - the "bottom" part
of the frame in the locking room. Most of the bars are covered, but where the
cover is removed you can see the bars attached to the levers that slide up and
down, which, using a complicated system of dogs and cut-outs, move the
horizontal bars. This affects the other levers' bars as, if a lever should
not be pulled there will be no cut-out in the appropriate place in the locking
bar, thus preventing the lever from being moved. NB. This is a vast over-simplification of how the system works! photograph by Chris Osment |
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This page was last updated 22 May 2007
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