The LNER Encyclopedia

My Great grandad ALEXANDER RICHARDSON was listed as signalman at Alnmouth Alnwick from the NT days to LNER in 1937. I have been given pics of his name listed on the honor board in the bookshop at Alnwick. If anyone has any info especially a picture of him at any stage of his tenure I would love to see it.
I live in Western Australia so you will have to email !

Alan if you have facebook let me know via a PM and i will put you in touch with a current Alnmouth signalman.

Hi Thanks for that!
email me alanph@gmail.com or https://www.facebook.com/alan.malcolm.37

Much appreciated.

I have the clock from Alnmouth South signalbox hanging on the wall above my computer now.

Wow, just wow. Any pics of the turn of the 20th century?

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/alnwickmrs/p ... th1900.htm

How things change!

Even allowing for the removal of the junction, it seems so much more complicated than it is now (or was when I picked someone up from the station in the late 90s).

I think pic is dated 1907 after a resignalling, note the district signal engineers petrol car in the road next to the shed. Nowt complex about the layout a road from the shed to the down main and the Alnwick branch connections which either led to platform 3 or 1 depending if the train was a local or a through train to Newcastle and points south.

Nice view of the throat of the shed here, note there are 2 sets of 3 way points. It looks as though there are a number of gas bottles lying beside the track or am I mistaken ?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/8755708@N07/16322550987

Also several views of the station here with a few colour photos by the late John Boyes showing detail of the signals being replaced by colour lights.

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/a ... teresting/

Fascinating...and thank you!!!!

That could well be GG in the signalbox....thanks muchly...a bit of photoshop magic called for here...I will post the results!

Alnmouth signal box is the oldest box on the ECML.

Thank you for that info!