Fenchurch Street signal bo x
Above: The first picture, with the two 2-6-4T locomotives dates from May 1959. Picture by kind permission of © Graham Floyd.
Fenchurch Street lever frame looking eastwards Picture by kind permission of © Graham Floyd.
Fenchurch Street lever frame looking eastwards Picture by kind permission of © Graham Floyd.
Fenchurch Street lever frame looking in a westerly direction. Picture by kind permission of © Graham Floyd.
Close up of the lever frame which appear to be control several points. Picture by kind permission of © Graham Floyd.
A Siemens-General Electric entrance exit panel was installed on 12th June 1961 which allowed the closure of Stepney East Junction, Bromley Junction, Upper Abbey Mills Junction and Upton Park signal boxes. The distance to the adjacent Barking signal box was 7m 442yds.
At sometime the 1961 Siemens-General Electric entrance-exit signalling panel was replaced by a British Railways Eastern Region entrance-exit signalling panel which was fitted in the 1961 panel’s shell.
Picture by kind permission of © Graham Floyd.
Closeup of the tracj diagram. Picture by kind permission of © Graham Floyd.
Adjacent boxes
When opened the adjacent signal box was Stepney East, 1m 748yds distant. When Stepney East closed the adjacent signal box was Barking, 7m 442yds distant.
Boxes Replaced
The only signal box I have information on is Christian Street Junction which had a 54 lever Saxby and Farmer Duplex frameThe Fenchurch Street power signalling scheme sems to have displaced 5 mechanical signalboxes and this was typical of the power installation of the times.
| Mechanical Signalbox displaced | Power signalbox | |
| Fenchurch Street | ?? levers | 140 levers |
| Haydon Square Junction | ?? levers | |
| Leeman Street Junction | ?? levers | |
| Christian Street Junction | ?? levers | |
| Shadwell | ?? levers | |
Total |
??? Levers | 43 Levers |
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