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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    Off in search of semaphores now and I arrive at Billingshurst and Southern liveried Electrostar 377101 makes its station stop with 1C62 1132 from London Victoria to Chichester.
    The old infrastructure rubs shoulders with the new rolling stock. Ecectrostar 377136 working 1C27 1159 Bognor Regis to London Victoria slows for its Billingshurst stop passing the 1876built signalbox. In 2013 it was offered to the Bluebell Railway for their East Grinstead terminus.
    Moving half way along the down platform to record 377136 and partner 377130 depart passing the up starter built in the former Southern Railway practise of using old lengths of rail bolted together to make the post.