London Victoria Station March 1976 - a photo on Flickriver

London Victoria Station March 1976

No it's not an old photo of Victoria station in 1876, it's unfortunately the only shot I have of Victoria Eastern signal box that used to live at the end of Platform 1 and controlled the South Eastern Lines out of the station. The original exposure was fine but for some unknown reason I didn't fix the film properly and it very quickly deteriorated.

The slam-door emu is in platform 1 and the platform face on this side is of course where all the Steam Specials depart from these days - platform 2.

Victoria Eastern signalbox was opened on the 4th January 1920, for the Kent lines working 3 position power operated semaphores, and was then named Victoria 'A'. The signalling on the eastern side was converted to coloured light signalling on the 25th June 1939, and the signalbox was renamed Victoria Eastern.

The signalbox was abolished on 13th May 1979, when control passed to the Victoria Central signal box. Control then passed to the new Victoria signalling centre located at Clapham Junction on 17th May 1980.

Information (and a much better photo) from Mark Adlington's great signalling website at www.wbsframe.mste.co.uk/public/sitemap.html

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / London / Victoria (show map)

Taken on: November 19, 2010

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Sets appears in: • Railway Signals & Signal Boxes • London Stations more » • Railways « less

Groups appears in: • London Mainline Rail • Southern Railway more » • Anything trains • Southeastern Railways • Electric Railways • London Railway Stations • Victoria Railway Station, London • LONDON RIP (Razing Inner-London Past) « less

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