2. Railways

Slamdoors and semaphores

With the withdrawal of the mkI based slam door stock taking place at a rapid rate, I took a week and a half to explore parts of the Southern Region taking in as many of the slam door sets and remaining semaphore signals as I could find. 20/3 - 1/4/2005
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    The Bexhill up starter is located just off the end of the canopy and passenger platform. Like so many, the post is built using redundant rail sections. 377165 passes the post with 2D74 1340 Hastings to Brighton.
    Electrostart 377147 slows for its station stop at Bexhill station with 2D27 1254 off Brighton to Hastings. It is passing Bexhill signalbox, another Saxby & Farmer Type 5 'box of 1876 vintage. It retains its original 19 lever frame but now uses 17 of them.
    Moving again and I find myself at the quaintly named Bopeep Junction, Hastings where the former LBSCR and SER lines come together. Electrostar sets 375905 and 375816 approach the junction from the west. I was not able to identify the working.