PURBECK RAILWAY CIRCLE

“Signalling the Link”A presentation by

Mike Walshaw,Swanage Railway

Signal & Telegraph Dept.

“Project Wareham” will see the Swanage Railway linked with

the Main Line at Worgret Junction under a

Swanage Railway –

Network Rail Partnership.

Show No.3

We look at the work carried out at Norden

as part of the

Token Block Signalling System now being installed between

Norden and Wareham.

Lyme Regis Ground Frame Hut. This is what we have tried to

reconstruct as the Token Hut at Norden Gates

Tony North builds the foundations, June 2012

‘Buildings Bespoke’ get to work, 18 July 2012

Yes, they even build signal boxes!

Roofing felt goes on

The interior is fitted out

Tony North receives the key to his Dream Home!

Dave Cobb and the Home Team get busy with the paint brush

Norden Crossing Down Distant Signal goes walk-about!

Tony North wields his smallest paint brush

The finished articleNorden Gates Cabin and behind it is

Norden Relay Room Sept 2013

This Relocatable Equipment Building is to become Norden Relay

Room

Tony North erects the Roof Rafters

Here is the finished Relay Room with the Power Supply Cabinet

alongside it

Now it is time for fitting out

Mike Walshaw, the Project Manager, measures up the many cable

terminations in the Relay Room

And ponders over the Relay Plugboards!

And checks out the Power Supply Cabinet!

VeVeru

Very technical!

Meanwhile, Mike Carnaby gets busy installing cables in Norden Gates Cabin

Mike Southey tackles the No-Signalman Token Instrument that controls the Section from Norden to Corfe Castle

And wonders what to do with a blue pencil!

Tony Udall fixes up the Plunger for the R.B.C. Bell to Corfe Castle

(R.B.C. = Return Bell Communication)

Photo credits:Andrew P.M. Wright,

R.K. Blencoe Collection (via Steve Jenkins)

and

Mike Walshaw

Show No.4 will highlight the work done by Contractors

to install the new

Token Block Signalling System between Norden and Wareham