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Photo ELR Branch Subject Location M C Elev'n Date Time

BPM01001		 WSJ   SYC Didcot & Chester Arrangement of 6-doll gantry signal assembly with "call-on" arms & route indicators. (Repeat frame BPM1130 is not so good) Crewe Junction, Shrewsbury station 171     32 54     29 South 13-Aug-1965 12:30

BPM01002		 MLN Bristol Temple Meads & Bridgewater Arrangement of 4-doll bracket truncated 3ft semaphore assembly, down relief to down sidings, relief to through relief, relief to main with working distant, & relief to Portishead branch with fixed distant. AWS ramps also visible in main & relief lines Bristol Parson Street station     SE    

BPM01003		 MLN Bristol Temple Meads & Bridgewater Arrangement of 4-doll bracket assembly, main to down relief, main to main with working distant, main to up sidings (relief) & main to Portishead branch with fixed distant Bristol Parson Street station     SE 18-Aug-1966 11:23

BPM01004		 CDT Cadoxton South Junction & Trefforest Junction Trackbed & still existing semaphore signal at farm field access overbridge north of Cadoxton North yard North-east of Coldbrook 0 61 South 30-10-1966 11:20

BPM01005		 MLN Bristol Temple Meads & Bridgewater 3-doll goods line bracket semaphore assembly Bristol West Depôt signal box 128 69 South    

BPM01006		 MLN Bristol Temple Meads & Bridgewater 6-doll ringed arm (Goods lines) gantry assembly with one GW 3ft arm replaced with 3ft BRWR arm Bristol West Depôt 128    0 65   03 North    

BPM01007		 MLN Swindon & Severn Tunnel Junction 4-doll bracket signal assembly. 4ft & 3ft standard enamelled arms fitted. Note motored distant & no weights on assembly due to close proximity of signal box. Also note platform extension as smoke deflectors & sparce under bracing Swindon Station West signal box 77 32 East 15-Feb-1964 15:08

BPM01008		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Terminal & fuse switchboard with batteries & lead out, for signal & point repeaters, relays & telephone circuits Cadoxton Low Level Junction signal box 6 28   ~01-Jan-1963 19:30

BPM01009		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Permissive block instruments & bells with semaphore arm repeaters for Nos 1 & 2 dock lines between Graving Dock Junction & Cadoxton Low Level Junction Cadoxton Low Level Junction signal box 6 28      

BPM01010		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Up & down main absolute block apparatus & bells Cadoxton Low Level Junction signal box 6 28      

BPM01011		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Interior view showing lever frame & instrument shelf (Note the chevroned, black & white detonator placer lever) Cogan Junction signal box 2 33      

BPM01012		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Interior of feeder box showing trickle charging apparatus, fuses, ballast & terminals. This gear installed in conjunction with bringing into operation new Barry Island ground frames "A" & "B" Barry Island East 8 75 South 2-May-1964 11:30

BPM01013		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Interior view of new Barry Island Ground Frame "A" showing token release apparatus, telephone, electric lock plungers, interlocking levers, signal levers, point levers & facing point lock lever Barry Island Ground Frame "A" 8 74 North 2-May-1964 11:38

BPM01014		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Interior of feeder panel installed for alterations to layout at Barry Island & in conjunction with ground frame locking & instrumentation. Cabinet size is 59"×31"×15½" (site checked) Barry Island ground frame 8 75 South 2-May-1964 11:31

BPM01015		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier General view of lever frame, electric lock plungers, block instruments etc. at Barry Island East signal box before abolition Barry Island East 8 75      

BPM01016		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier General view of lever frame, block instruments etc. at Cadoxton Low level Junction signal box (after repainting). This signal box controlled many siding turnouts & not passenger traffic points so the absence of blue facing point lock levers will be noted. Most main line running signals were slotted with Cadoxton South signal box lever movements Cadoxton Low Level Junction signal box 6 28      

BPM01017		 SAW Speech House Road & Berkeley Road Including Coleford Branch (Severn & Wye Joint Line) Single line with derailment containment guard rails on viaduct approach to former Severn Railway bridge. Note the cast-iron pipeline attached to the viaduct wall capstones. Note also part of the fouling bar in conjunction with the facing/trailing points to the rear of the camera point. The entire viaduct was demolished in June 1964 after severance in 1960 of some of the steel spans of the bridge (seen beyond) due to a petrol lighter collision in fog, the ensuing explosion and fire, fracture of the gas main & collapse of two bridge spans (River) Severn Railway bridge, arched-viaduct approach, west side, near Gatcombe, Glos. 5 34 West    

BPM01018		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry pier View of swing-nose crossing (elbows) in down main with trailing connection into up main, shown severed due to rationalisation of operations due to closure of Nos.3&4 platforms at Cadoxton Station. The clip & red padlock can be seen near the junction of the switch blades Cadoxton South signal box 6 04 SE    

BPM01019		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Partial view of compound points showing ground disc & mechanical detection & also, insulated spacers in operation rodding Barry Island East signal box 8 75 SE    

BPM01020		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Double traps in single turnout, (track-circuited). Insulated stretchers are just perceptible Barry Island No.4 Platform 8 73 West 17-Apr-1964 15:15

BPM01021		 Walnut Tree Junction & Aber Junction Close-up of facing-point lock & single-blade mechanical detection in a track-circuited section of permanent way. Note the three blades in the detector, one from each switch blade & one from the facing-point lock Penrhos Junction, north     East    

BPM01022		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan Newly-installed motor-driven facing points West Aberthaw, near Aberthaw Cement Works connection 5 27 East    

BPM01023		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan Sprung trailing points, free-driven by traffic wheel flanges in trailing direction West Aberthaw, near Aberthaw Cement Works connection 5 27 East    

BPM01024		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan Motor-driven facing points with central facing-point lock West Aberthaw, near Aberthaw Cement Works connection 5 27 South    

BPM01025		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Motor-driven facing turnout on curve showing facing-point lock & operating rodding. Note the existence of Barry carriage shed in background where a heritage DMU is standing & also note the steam loco’s awaiting scrapping at the locoshed sidings on the right. The severe curves here are fitted with check rails over the entire length South-west of Barry station at end of causeway section of line to Barry Island 8 30 SE    

BPM01026		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier BRWR triple-disc assembly for backing movements in "wrong" direction. This unit replaced the former route-indicating backing semaphore which stood at the north end of platform 3 Cadoxton station 6 08½ South    

BPM01027		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Newly-installed BRWR 11½" diameter ground disc assembly fitted with proving contacts for electrically repeating the aspect of the disc at the signal box shelf repeater indicator Causeway section of line between Barry & Barry Island, west end 8 31 South    

BPM01028		 SWM Didcot & Reading 11½" elevated disc assembly Didcot station 53 10 SW    

BPM01029		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Double-disc assembly with integral mechanical detection Down relief line, Llandough sidings 2 17 North    

BPM01030		 MLN Bristol Temple Meads & Bath 11½" ground disc assembly which was operated by two separate signal boxes so that a slot was fitted & hence the inclusion of two separate electrical proving contacts in housings to the right of the pedestal. The cabling to the signal box repeaters is routed through the flexible conduit seen leaving the contact boxes &  running into the ground. Note the track-circuit bonds in the bull head rail at the bottom left of photo’ Bristol, Eastern Depôt, River Avon Main Down viaduct (141 yards) 117 28 South    

BPM01031		 SWM Gloucester & Severn Tunnel Junction 22" & 11½" elevated disc assembly with track-circuit indicators (white diamonds). Some of these are preserved & on display at the Dean Forest Railway, Norchard Museum, Gloucestershire.(2001) Gloucester Central station 114 09 NW    

BPM01032		 CDT Cadoxton South Junction & Trefforest Junction BRWR double-disc assembly with separate detection & cubical lamp units Catch-pointed outlet fro down sidings at Tonteg Junction 12 15 North    

BPM01033		 CDT Cadoxton South Junction & Trefforest Junction BRWR single-disc assembly controlling crossover from down to up main & through which, traffic passed form the single line Llantrisant branch travelling towards Trefforest Junction Tonteg Junction 12     5 30    26 South    

BPM01034		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan GWR 16" diameter ground disc on split pedestal with integral detection Crossover from down to up main, adjacent to Rhoose cement Works siding connection 3 21 SW    

BPM01035		 CAM Cardiff (Bute Road) & Merthyr Layout of main & relief lines with crossovers, 3-way turnouts & half compound (single slip) Radyr Junction 5 31 NW 10-Apr-1965 16:34

BPM01035a		 CAM Cardiff (Bute Road) & Merthyr Relief lines & semaphore signalling at Radyr Junction Radyr station 5 33 North 10-Apr-1965 11:33

BPM01036		 LTR Mwyndy Junction & Tonteg Junction 2-lever ground frame (Point & facing point lock). Exit from Brofiscin Branch Maesauraul Junction, Cross Inn 1 03¾ West 10-Apr-1965 15:21

BPM01037		 LTR Mwyndy Junction & Tonteg Junction Double-throw catch points in single-line Brofiscin branch. Line to Tonteg Junction (for Cwm Colliery) runs to left Maesauraul Junction, Cross Inn 1 05 West    

BPM01038		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier GWR square-bottomed ground disc with integral mechanical detection Run-round crossover from No.1 platform, Barry station 8 15 East    

BPM01039		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Run-round crossover from Bay platform (No.1) with GWR square-bottomed ground disc & integral mechanical detection. (Note the fouling bar just visible in the point rail) Run-round crossover from No.1 platform, Barry station 8 16 South    

BPM01040		 CDT Cadoxton South Junction & Trefforest Junction View of triple-pull mechanical detection at facing points. Line was track-circuited here & insulated rodding joints can be seen Tynycaeau Junction 5      0 52     00 South ~1960  

BPM01041		   Penrhos View of facing crossover with two-part fouling bar & showing ground disc for reversing movements Tynycaeau Junction 5 54 East ~1960  

BPM01042		 CDT Cadoxton South Junction & Trefforest Junction View of double-pull mechanical detection in facing points Tynycaeau Junction 5 52 South ~1960  

BPM01043		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Cogan junction & signal box showing elbows (swing-nose) crossing in down relief/up main when all permanent way was in use Axxx road overbridge Cogan station 2 37 ~1960  

BPM01044		   Penrhos Double single-blade traps in Penrhos sidings (Out-of use) Penrhos sidings 12 20 South ~1960  

BPM01045		 VOG Vale of Glamorgan Single-blade catch point, mechanical detection & ground disc (Black & white photo’) Up siding, Rhoose station 3 30 South ~1960  

BPM01046		 CDT Cadoxton South Junction & Trefforest Junction Permanent way layout just beyond facing junction from Wenvoe to Penrhos lines (A4232 Culverhouse Cross-M4 motorway link now occupies this site) Tynycaeau Junction 5 58 SE ~1960  

BPM01047		   Moat Lane Junction & Talyllyn Triple disc with integral mechanical detection Up sidings adjacent to Talyllyn North Junction signal box 107 79 East 1-Sep-1963  

BPM01048		   Penrhos Permanent way & semaphore signals at commencement of Penrhos branch. (5¾mile-post visible on Cadoxton-Trefforest line alongside bracket signal & at extreme edge of photo’ on Penrhos branch) North of Tynycaeau Junction. (A4232 Culverhouse cross-M4 motorway link now passes to the left of this site) 5 59½ SE ~1960  

BPM01049		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Arrangement of lever arm for operation of swing-nose crossing at former Barry Dock signal box (Black & white photo’) In down main at Barry Dock signal box 7 07 West ~1960  

BPM01049a		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier View of swing-nose crossing (elbows) in down main. This was track-circuited so all tie rods, stretcher plates etc, were insulated from one another to prevent short-circuiting of the electrical circuit between rails South of Barry Dock signal box (Black & white photo’) 7 07 South ~1960  

BPM01050		 BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Full view of swing-nose crossing in down main, allowing passage of traffic from up main to up high level sidings South of Barry Dock signal box (Black & white photo’) 7 07 South ~1960  

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