Southern's 13 Power Box Scheme
 

On Apr 3, 8:20 am, Graeme Wall wrote:

I was under the impression that Basingstoke was one of the 13, hence the
elimination of the Southampton boxes about 1980.


Southampton went under Eastleigh in c.1981 not under Basingstoke.

I think there was maybe one to be located at Basingstoke or Eastleigh
but also I think in neither case would it have been the 1966/1967 box
directly - but a replacement or considerably expanded facility.

--
Nick

Southern's 13 Power Box Scheme
 

On Apr 3, 10:18 am, "BH Williams" wrote:


'Dartford' is a workstation at Ashford IECC, as is the CTRL .
Brian

I did not know that abotu Dartford, although I did about CTRl.

When did Dartford PSB close ?


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Nick

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"D7666" wrote:

On Apr 3, 8:20 am, Graeme Wall wrote:

I was under the impression that Basingstoke was one of the 13, hence the
elimination of the Southampton boxes about 1980.


Southampton went under Eastleigh in c.1981 not under Basingstoke.

Doh! I meant Eastleigh, sorry, I was thinking about the coming works at
Basingstoke and it stuck in my mind.


I think there was maybe one to be located at Basingstoke or Eastleigh
but also I think in neither case would it have been the 1966/1967 box
directly - but a replacement or considerably expanded facility.


I'm pretty certain Eastleigh was one of the '13'.

--
Graeme Wall
This address is not read, substitute trains for rail.
Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html

Southern's 13 Power Box Scheme
 

Graeme Wall wrote:
In message .com
"D7666" wrote:

On Apr 3, 2:11 am, "MaxB" wrote:

wrote in message
ups.com...I know the SR had a plan in the 70's to have 13 PSB's for the whole
region can anyone shed some light, plan did not happen as such.
I don't know if it was ever finished, but London Bridge, Victoria (Clapham
Jn) and Ashford were all part of it.

I agree it certainly started but was not finished.

The Central Division (mainly) boxes LB, VA, Three Bridges were
certainly three of them - but I think that was it.

I am not so sure Ashford was one - maybe if so it would have been much
extended. ISTR Ashford was older, resignalled under Kent Coast Phase
II, and like Eastleigh and Basingstoke and other 1960s boxes pre-dated
the 13 box scheme, and replaced by a new one/s or the equipment/s
supplanted. Then what went into Ashford was - by the time it was done
- was no longer part of the 13 box scheme.

I was under the impression that Basingstoke was one of the 13, hence the
elimination of the Southampton boxes about 1980.

sneaky plug

For a touch of LSWR/SR nostalgia my Southampton signal box pages are at
http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/sigbox/sigbox.htm


Interesting site. Hope you don't mind my linking to it from the relevant
pages of my website?

http://www.conceptcrafts.co.uk/britishrailways1960

Southern's 13 Power Box Scheme
 

On Apr 3, 10:47 am, "D7666" wrote:

On Apr 3, 8:20 am, Graeme Wall wrote:

I was under the impression that Basingstoke was one of the 13, hence the
elimination of the Southampton boxes about 1980.

Southampton went under Eastleigh in c.1981 not under Basingstoke.



Although since posting that I see you refer to Southampton to
Eastleigh on your web pages - but I can't quite see where ''...
Basingstoke was one of the 13, hence the
elimination of the Southampton boxes ...'' comes in to play.


--
Nick

Southern's 13 Power Box Scheme
 

"Graeme Wall" wrote in message
...
In message om
"D7666" wrote:

On Apr 3, 8:20 am, Graeme Wall wrote:

I was under the impression that Basingstoke was one of the 13, hence
the
elimination of the Southampton boxes about 1980.


Southampton went under Eastleigh in c.1981 not under Basingstoke.

Doh! I meant Eastleigh, sorry, I was thinking about the coming works at
Basingstoke and it stuck in my mind.


I think there was maybe one to be located at Basingstoke or Eastleigh
but also I think in neither case would it have been the 1966/1967 box
directly - but a replacement or considerably expanded facility.


I'm pretty certain Eastleigh was one of the '13'.

--
Graeme Wall
This address is not read, substitute trains for rail.
Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html

I have the 'Yellow Peril' for that in the loft does that make me sad

Southern's 13 Power Box Scheme
 

"D7666" wrote in message
oups.com...
On Apr 3, 10:18 am, "BH Williams" wrote:


'Dartford' is a workstation at Ashford IECC, as is the CTRL .
Brian

I did not know that abotu Dartford, although I did about CTRl.

When did Dartford PSB close ?


--
Nick


Did it ever open? I thought the 'box was the one at Gillingham, by the
depot- this was never fitted out, as the IECC at Ashford had sufficent
capacity to accomodate the functions.The North Kent signals do still bear
the NK prefix, however. Even now, with all the other bits added on to the
original SER mainline, there still seems to be space at Ashford for more.
Brian

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On Apr 3, 8:20 am, Graeme Wall wrote:


http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/sigbox/sigbox.htm


Digressing, my default browser is Mozilla 1.7.13.

When I got to the above URL there appear to be no active links
anywhere in the page. Dragging my mouse over the entire page shows no
hyperlinks at all.

If I look at the HTML source, there are tags in there that I do not
recognise, and tags that I would normally expect to see are not
present - - - although my knowledge of HTML is far from expert, and I
accept there are sometimes different ways of acheivng the same thing.

If I open the same page in M$ Internet Explorer, I see the hyperlinks
which work as expected.

Mozilla 1.7.13 is the highest (well as at last weekend anyway)
released version apart from any beta test versions that may be out
there, so it is not a question of me needing to upgade.

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Nick

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"8sub" wrote:


"Graeme Wall" wrote in message
...
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"D7666" wrote:

On Apr 3, 8:20 am, Graeme Wall wrote:

I was under the impression that Basingstoke was one of the 13, hence
the
elimination of the Southampton boxes about 1980.


Southampton went under Eastleigh in c.1981 not under Basingstoke.

Doh! I meant Eastleigh, sorry, I was thinking about the coming works at
Basingstoke and it stuck in my mind.


I think there was maybe one to be located at Basingstoke or Eastleigh
but also I think in neither case would it have been the 1966/1967 box
directly - but a replacement or considerably expanded facility.


I'm pretty certain Eastleigh was one of the '13'.

--
Graeme Wall
This address is not read, substitute trains for rail.
Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html

I have the 'Yellow Peril' for that in the loft does that make me sad



Very, just like the rest of us :-)

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Graeme Wall
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Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html

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In message
Brian Robertson wrote:

Graeme Wall wrote:
[snip]

sneaky plug

For a touch of LSWR/SR nostalgia my Southampton signal box pages are at
http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/sigbox/sigbox.htm


Interesting site. Hope you don't mind my linking to it from the relevant
pages of my website?

http://www.conceptcrafts.co.uk/britishrailways1960

Feel free.

--
Graeme Wall
This address is not read, substitute trains for rail.
Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html