Comments on: Parliamentary Mysteries http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/parliamentary-mysteries/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/parliamentary-mysteries/comment-page-1/#comment-938 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:18:56 +0000 http://kalyr.co.uk/wordpress/?p=472#comment-938 Stockport-Stalybridge used to be a regular service when the north Trans-Pennine trains ran from Victoria; it was a useful connection for passengers travelling between Cheshire and West Yorkshire. Now you can do the same journeys with one change at Piccadilly.

Did you know that Stockport No1 and 2 boxes still have the original 1895 LNWR lever frames? Refurbished a couple of years ago with the help of some signalling engineers flown in from India.

]]> By: Rob http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/parliamentary-mysteries/comment-page-1/#comment-937 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:02:13 +0000 http://kalyr.co.uk/wordpress/?p=472#comment-937 One of my school friends used to commute to school on that line (lived in Stalybridge, went to Stockport Grammar). One time we blagged our way into Stalybridge signal box to chat to the signalman, and were highly amused to discover a Glasgow & South-Western Railway lever frame (IIRC) therein. Which is even funnier – and much harder to explain – than the massive frame (something like 50 levers) in tiny Chapel-en-le-Frith South. (In Chapel’s case the box had been hastily rebuilt after its unfortunate encounter with the runaway train which John Axon GC was attempting to stop. They diverted the next available frame for the rebuild, which I think was destined for Carlisle or somewhere.)

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