tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9074654920193695267.post7500249810227688132..comments2023-12-24T12:05:31.362+11:00Comments on BYLONG: Werris Creek Station and a Couple of Signal BoxesRay Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16624865987062727847noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9074654920193695267.post-28201309638457168902019-03-16T23:27:00.456+11:002019-03-16T23:27:00.456+11:00Ray Thank you very much, will keep up with the blo...Ray Thank you very much, will keep up with the blog and facebook<br />Chris Christopher Hainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07161760506381123845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9074654920193695267.post-7433051812175415092019-03-16T19:18:48.818+11:002019-03-16T19:18:48.818+11:00Christopher
As a result of your query and after l...Christopher<br /><br />As a result of your query and after looking at a couple of photos of the signal box at Gilmore I have decided to draw the Gilmore box up and put it on my shop. Keep a check on these comments and also Facebook and this blog.<br /><br />Regards,<br />Ray PRay Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16624865987062727847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9074654920193695267.post-37976203565329367742019-03-16T02:55:37.349+11:002019-03-16T02:55:37.349+11:00Was wondering if these will be added to your Signa...Was wondering if these will be added to your Signals Branch range? Very interested in the smaller signal box for GilmoreChristopher Hainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07161760506381123845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9074654920193695267.post-15828353574063314122019-02-04T16:50:39.059+11:002019-02-04T16:50:39.059+11:00Thanks Colin for the extra info, It is amazing tha...Thanks Colin for the extra info, It is amazing that given the importance of Werris Creek that there are so few photos of almost any part of it. I am sure they are out there in private collections but ....<br /><br />Regards,<br />RayRay Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16624865987062727847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9074654920193695267.post-52363034078956875272019-02-04T16:16:37.168+11:002019-02-04T16:16:37.168+11:00Ray, it could well have been a toilet meant for th...Ray, it could well have been a toilet meant for the signalman especially given the way it looks in the sketches. <br /><br />From what I can remember in that time, a lot of the areas in WCK were not on the sewer, & IIRC the toilet facilities then were quite archaic especially with the loco depot, and most signal boxes, so likely the Sth box one was the same, but I cannot guarantee that.<br /><br />I have a night photo that really does not help that was taken on the Wallangarra tour with 3616 at the station as only the eaves can be seen but nil help.<br /><br />There is a photo in the Weston Langford collection taken of 5244 in the loop of the NW line, it does show the signal box and is reasonable, date for it is 21-01-61 it should still be there if you can look it up. The colour of the box actually is in more akin to the mid stone colour, rather than cream as I remember end of 69-70 period but certainly not a yellowy like cream which perhaps suggest the light stone colour. The WL pic shows the box is quite dirty with a lot of black edging to the external boards, visible is luggage trolley and its possible to pick the old brown colour of it, it had some shine but the box was dirty matte.Colin Husseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10166476334786660482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9074654920193695267.post-53856177621784156002019-02-04T11:36:42.751+11:002019-02-04T11:36:42.751+11:00Colin
Thank you for the extra information, very u...Colin<br /><br />Thank you for the extra information, very useful. Regarding the two relay huts, I took it that the second hut in the sketch was an outside toilet. Do you remember this as in there were perhaps two relay huts and an outside toilet?<br /><br />Yes, I can see the old weathered 'cream' colour, it is a difficult colour to find. It would be either Light Stone weathered away or maybe the cream that became common in the late 1950's - early 1960's. Either way, like you, I think the 'Heritage' light dirty orange/tan colour is wrong for the Light Stone and that it is more like the Middle Stone.<br /><br />Regards,<br />Ray<br />Ray Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16624865987062727847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9074654920193695267.post-80780110934445263822019-02-04T09:57:54.151+11:002019-02-04T09:57:54.151+11:00Ray.
The old south box signal box was also the me...Ray.<br /><br />The old south box signal box was also the meal room and locker room for the shunters the reason for the extra doors on the front, there were two old relay boxes as shown in the sketches at the rear of the box between it and the Main Road.<br /><br />The deck/platform had a single pipe rail running the length along the face of the platform outside the signal box door itself. This was for the signalman's support for changing the staff for trains going the main line, to/from the station. At one point it had been timber but it rotted out and replaced with a steel piping arrangement bolted on a base into the platform.<br /><br />Both ends of the platform had steps, the Northern end for shunters and crews walking up there to the box for relief of train crews coming in. and to share the meal room with Shunters. The Southern end was for the signalman to walk over to collect the staff from arriving trains going into the yard as well as handing the staff to departing trains from the yard,<br /><br />The station signal box, in my time in 69-71 was very much a weathered and peeling older cream colour, rather than the darker one as painted everywhere these days. IIRC the box even in the 80's was of that old colour but in a bit better condition.Colin Husseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10166476334786660482noreply@blogger.com