A signal job in the box of days gone by
It was from here the trains were controlled that ran into the terminus platforms and those that carried on to Portsmouth Harbour through the high level platforms.
Everything is mechanical, the short and long levers controlling either points or signals.
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Hide AdIn those days it was always a signalman who worked in the boxes, but with many women on the modern railway they are now called signallers.
The box, high in the air alongside Greetham Street, was decommissioned in the late 1960s when the modern box was opened alongside Canal Walk.
However, even that one has been closed and everything is now controlled from a modern, computerised signalling centre at Havant. Not ‘box’ any more.
Does anyone know the name of the signalman on duty in the picture?