East Croydon to Keymer Junction.Click on picture to enlarge.
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East Croydon to Keymer Junction. |
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| THE LATE SIXTIES. Click on picture to enlarge. | ||||||||
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| East Croydon Box, 105 lever Westinghouse miniature frame. | ||||||||
| Holmethorpe Box, north of Redhill, seen from "the 'ole", the siding to the sand quarry that sent off several trainloads daily to the glassworks at St. Helens, Lancashire. | ||||||||
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| Inside Holmethorpe Christmas 1968, complete with Christmas decorations. | ||||||||
| Looking south from Redhill B towards Earleswood. The lampman is at work. On the left lies the old loco shed. | ||||||||
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| Looking north from Redhill B, a busy mechanical box with Syke's Lock and Block on the mainline, 3 Position Block to Reigate and ancient Walker's One-wire telegraph to Godstone. | ||||||||
| Earleswood lever frame."Facing point locks stand normally out." | ||||||||
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| The "dead-light" diagram at Earleswood.Syke's Lock and Block instruments and clock describers to Redhill and magazine train describers on the Quarry Line to Coulsden. | ||||||||
| Three Bridges with its 150 lever Westinghouse frame. | ||||||||
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| Down Victoria Fast passing Balcombe Tunnel Junction | ||||||||
| Up London Bridge Slow passing Balcombe Tunnel Junction. | ||||||||
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| A down Lewes train comes off the mainline at Keymer Junction. On this summer day in 1968, the lack of traffic on Junction Road is astonishing by today's standards. | ||||||||
| Keymer | ||||||||
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| Keymer | ||||||||
| The author at Keymer junction. Known as the fish-fryer, it had a Westinghouse panel frame. Just visible to the left is the four lever frame, two gate locks and two detonator placers. Behind me is the wheel for operating the crossing gates. | ||||||||
