Transcript PURBECK RAILWAY CIRCLE

PURBECK RAILWAY
CIRCLE
“Signalling the Link”.
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.5:
The work carried out by
Swanage Railway Staff
to install the
Token System
between
Norden and Wareham
.
Mike Walshaw wires up the relays in the
depths of Corfe Castle Signal Box.
And in Norden Relay Room.
Mike Southey installs the NSKT Token Instrument
in Norden Gates Cabin for the Corfe Section.
And contemplates the new Diagram in
Corfe Castle Signal Box.
S&T Manager Tony North puzzles over
the back of the Diagram.
And completes wiring up the Token System
Controls.
Mike Carnaby wires up the Wareham Token
Instrument Circuit Board, now set up in Norden
Gates Cabin.
Robin Sowter and Nick Gosden, the ‘Verifying
Team’, get busy in Norden Gates Cabin with the
Token System Test Rig.
And now in Norden Relay Room.
Mike Southey dealing
Mike Southey deals with the Corfe NSKT
System in Norden Relay Room.
Tony Udall assists with the testing of the
Token System in Corfe Castle Signal Box.
It is now time to install the
Token Instruments at Wareham.
Mike Southey gets busy on the Down Platform.
And now on the Up Platform, while Tony
North looks on.
Tony North hopes we will not close the
door on him!
At last it is time to install our
equipment in the middle of the
remote River Frome Flood Plain.
It is a 2-km walk from the nearest
access point.
So, accompanied by a COSS and a Lookout Man, we
load up our trolley at Creech Bottom Crossing.
We arrive on site. Tony North opens up the
Swanage Railway Cabinet while Mike Walshaw
finds the right wiring diagram.
Here we are, out in the wilds near the River
Frome Viaduct.
We fix up a Magic Marker Board
on our way home.
Photo credits:
Andrew P.M. Wright,
and
Mike Walshaw
Show No.6 will highlight the
Testing of the new
Token Block Signalling System
between Norden and Wareham