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Post by GentlemanJim on Mar 10, 2013 19:00:35 GMT
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Post by railtechnician on Mar 10, 2013 19:42:00 GMT
I remember Leyton, one of the first signalling changeovers I ever worked on circa 1977. We were at the end of the Central line resignalling when I began my LT career and IIRC Leyton was one of the last sites, I also worked on Woodford, Holborn-Chancery Lane-St Pauls and Queensway changeovers in between cabling on the north end of the Northern, Camden Town to Golders Green, for the following Northern Line resignalling before moving on to the east end Picc resignalling.
That was long before we had to wear hi-vi vests on nightshift but on that particular job we were advised to wear them because we would still be on the track in daylight near the start of traffic hours.
Way back then we would often cut out all the old signalling as soon as we had cutover the new wiring etc. On that particular shift one of the mechanical gangs was somewhat overzealous in removing redundant signal heads and took down a four aspect head by mistake, it was not redundant at all. The trouble was that it was so heavy and the pole used to take the weight as it was removed bent in the process, there was no way to refit it until a gang came in on Monday night overtime with the wherewithall to do so!
I will always remember the shift for two reasons other than that, it was a Friday night and I was based at Whitechapel New Works depot, clocking off time was 0630 but by the time we got back it was 0700 and the supervisor wouldn't pay us overtime! The other reason was that the cable jointer had a habit of drinking barley wine (back then drinking on the job or off was not an issue unless one was blatantly incapable!) and dropping his guts. That night he did exactly that and cleared the relay room for several minutes in the wee small hours.
Happy days!
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Post by GentlemanJim on Mar 11, 2013 22:20:01 GMT
Indeed. Any idea if the Box was saved to a Heritage Line?
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Post by railtechnician on Mar 12, 2013 2:12:57 GMT
My recollection is that the old lever frame was to go to a heritage line but I have no idea whether it did or not.
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