Image Kettering Station signal box (Mid, 1913) & curve to Cransley
Kettering Station signal box (Mid, 1913) & curve to Cransley
Kettering Station signal box (Mid, 1913) & curve to Cransley Graham and I had must have simply wandered off the end of the station ramp at Kettering to take this photograph....could you imagine the fuss that this would cause today with all trains between St. Pancras and Derby stopped no doubt! Back in 1980, there was no such attention paid to us as we took this image of Kettering Station signal box. It's a 1913 Midland box that controlled all movements around Kettering station including its yards, sidings and junctions. This included the line diverging off to the right here that was the freight only branch to Loddington that once served the extensive opencast ironstone workings close to the village. In later years only the shortened spur to Cransley remained synonymous as the location of the Cohen's scrapyard where many steam and first-generation diesel locomotives met their fate. Delivered by rail, these locomotives would have made their last journey down the short spur over the rails directly in the foreground that curve off to the right. The Midland Railway Type 4E signal box still exists having been dismantled and moved to The Midland Railway at Butterly named Swanick Junction. By way of comparison, some thirty-four years later, whilst the scene had changed considerably, the lamp posts still existed, see..... https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/29948597604/x2-222020-em-09-29-london-st-pancras Keywords: Kettering Station signal box curve to Cransley
Kettering Station signal box (Mid, 1913) & curve to Cransley Graham and I had must have simply wandered off the end of the station ramp at Kettering to take this photograph....could you imagine the fuss that this would cause today with all trains between St. Pancras and Derby stopped no doubt! Back in 1980, there was no such attention paid to us as we took this image of Kettering Station signal box. It's a 1913 Midland box that controlled all movements around Kettering station including its yards, sidings and junctions. This included the line diverging off to the right here that was the freight only branch to Loddington that once served the extensive opencast ironstone workings close to the village. In later years only the shortened spur to Cransley remained synonymous as the location of the Cohen's scrapyard where many steam and first-generation diesel locomotives met their fate. Delivered by rail, these locomotives would have made their last journey down the short spur over the rails directly in the foreground that curve off to the right. The Midland Railway Type 4E signal box still exists having been dismantled and moved to The Midland Railway at Butterly named Swanick Junction. By way of comparison, some thirty-four years later, whilst the scene had changed considerably, the lamp posts still existed, see..... https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/29948597604/x2-222020-em-09-29-london-st-pancras Keywords: Kettering Station signal box curve to Cransley


Graham and I had must have simply wandered off the end of the station ramp at Kettering to take this photograph....could you imagine the fuss that this would cause today with all trains between St. Pancras and Derby stopped no doubt! Back in 1980, there was no such attention paid to us as we took this image of Kettering Station signal box. It's a 1913 Midland box that controlled all movements around Kettering station including its yards, sidings and junctions. This included the line diverging off to the right here that was the freight only branch to Loddington that once served the extensive opencast ironstone workings close to the village. In later years only the shortened spur to Cransley remained synonymous as the location of the Cohen's scrapyard where many steam and first-generation diesel locomotives met their fate. Delivered by rail, these locomotives would have made their last journey down the short spur over the rails directly in the foreground that curve off to the right. The Midland Railway Type 4E signal box still exists having been dismantled and moved to The Midland Railway at Butterly named Swanick Junction. By way of comparison, some thirty-four years later, whilst the scene had changed considerably, the lamp posts still existed, see..... https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/29948597604/x2-222020-em-09-29-london-st-pancras