Image Class 56, up empty hoppers, Brocklesby station
Class 56, up empty hoppers, Brocklesby station
Class 56, up empty hoppers, Brocklesby station The waving of a red flag by, in this case, the signalmen in Brocklesby signal box is an urgent request for a train to stop. As the up empty hopper train hauled by the Class 56 has the road and has passed the box I suspect that the signalman was not requesting this to stop but that he was flagging down a down train that would have been coming into view behind me. Either way, my contemporary notes do not make clear what I had observed apart from a Class 47 leading a freight towards Scunthorpe. In this wide-angled view taken from the B1211 road bridge, the mock Tudor Gothic-styled station can be seen to the right with the unusually placed Great Central signal box on the island platform. This scene is essentially the same today apart from the absence of the bracket signal and the rest of the signalling equipment. Additionally, whilst this particular Class 56 has probably been scrapped a small number are still in use on the network. Keywords: Class 56 up empty hoppers Brocklesby station
Class 56, up empty hoppers, Brocklesby station The waving of a red flag by, in this case, the signalmen in Brocklesby signal box is an urgent request for a train to stop. As the up empty hopper train hauled by the Class 56 has the road and has passed the box I suspect that the signalman was not requesting this to stop but that he was flagging down a down train that would have been coming into view behind me. Either way, my contemporary notes do not make clear what I had observed apart from a Class 47 leading a freight towards Scunthorpe. In this wide-angled view taken from the B1211 road bridge, the mock Tudor Gothic-styled station can be seen to the right with the unusually placed Great Central signal box on the island platform. This scene is essentially the same today apart from the absence of the bracket signal and the rest of the signalling equipment. Additionally, whilst this particular Class 56 has probably been scrapped a small number are still in use on the network. Keywords: Class 56 up empty hoppers Brocklesby station


The waving of a red flag by, in this case,

the signalmen in Brocklesby signal box is an urgent request for a train to stop. As the up empty hopper train hauled by the Class 56 has the road and has passed the box I suspect that the signalman was not requesting this to stop but that he was flagging down a down train that would have been coming into view behind me. Either way, my contemporary notes do not make clear what I had observed apart from a Class 47 leading a freight towards Scunthorpe. In this wide-angled view taken from the B1211 road bridge, the mock Tudor Gothic-styled station can be seen to the right with the unusually placed Great Central signal box on the island platform. This scene is essentially the same today apart from the absence of the bracket signal and the rest of the signalling equipment. Additionally, whilst this particular Class 56 has probably been scrapped a small number are still in use on the network.