L&LSR Tooban Junction Signal Box

[Colin R]

Hi guys I wonder if anyone can help me I have most of the published books on the Swilly railway but I need some clear front and rear photos of the Signal Box at Tooban Junction on the Swilly.

I have been able to work out the end details but not the length of the box so the photos need to be clear enough to count the number of bricks use per course.

It has been said that the box was 31ft long but when I tried to work that out in 4mm scale  from the photos I have, it appears miles to long.

 

Colin

[Irishswissernie]

Hope this link works

http://www.bluebell-railway-museum.co.uk/archive/photos/jjs/b04/4-56-1.htm

Definitely not 31 feet!

You can buy copies of the print from the Bluebell Railway, this is the link http://www.bluebell-railway-museum.co.uk/archive/photos/buy.htm

The prices  appear reasonable if the web site prices are up to date. Quite a selection of Tooban Junction photos.

Ernie

Edited September 28, 2018 by Irishswissernie

[Colin R]

Thanks Ernie

I have just ordered the front shot from them, from what I can make out the back of the cabin was almost identical, except for the blind spot where the chimney was located.

The next question from this is was there a standard L&LSR station building design?

 

Colin

 

[Irishswissernie]

I don't think there was a standard design as such, but the 4 sections of line had certain characteristic features. Graving Dock to Buncrana no distinctive style although Buncrana was fairly impressive.

Tooban to Letterkenny , Newton Cunningham, Sallybrook, Manorcunningham and Letterkenny shared various architectural features.

The Carndonagh extension buildings shared similar brick decorative work. The Burtonport extension buildings were pretty basic. 

The Swilly was fond of curved corrugated iron roofing on its goods and loco sheds and also on Graving Dock station.

Smaller signal boxes are best described as single pitched roof 'garden sheds'

The revised edition of Dr EM Patterson's Lough Swilly book recently published by Colourpoint has some small line sketches of various station buildings.

Ernie

[Colin R]

Thanks Ernie once again, I have a model kit in mind, which I think could be used to give the L&LSR feel to the layout.

 

Colin

[BSGSV]

Tooban Junction was a Railway Signal Co. design, replicated very frequently in different sizes throughout Ireland and Britain, although Tooban looks quite nnarrow from pictures.

The small flat roof buildings (Bridge End, Letterkenny, Fahan, Buncrana, Clonmany and Carndonagh are examples) are Dutton and Co. style huts, either by Duttons themselves, or possible by JF Pease who took them over.

[DiveController]

Are these designs available somewhere? I have always thought it would good to have access to a resource where  modelers would be able to see a series of designs for railway cabins etc and could styles modified to fit various size cabins  that belonged to MGWR, WLWR etc

[Mayner]

On 9/29/2018 at 1:32 AM, Irishswissernie said:

I don't think there was a standard design as such, but the 4 sections of line had certain characteristic features. Graving Dock to Buncrana no distinctive style although Buncrana was fairly impressive.

Tooban to Letterkenny , Newton Cunningham, Sallybrook, Manorcunningham and Letterkenny shared various architectural features.

The Carndonagh extension buildings shared similar brick decorative work. The Burtonport extension buildings were pretty basic. 

The Swilly was fond of curved corrugated iron roofing on its goods and loco sheds and also on Graving Dock station.

Smaller signal boxes are best described as single pitched roof 'garden sheds'

The revised edition of Dr EM Patterson's Lough Swilly book recently published by Colourpoint has some small line sketches of various station buildings.

Ernie

Looks like Letterkenny shed.

There is a story of 4-8-0 No 12 being pulled out of the shed for a photographer (after Burtonportline working ended) with the aid of a wire rope. The story went that No14 was left outside as they did not want to risk two locos on the turntable. The LLSR Letterkenny good yard remained open for goods traffic served by the CDJR after LLSR goods operations ceased in the early 1950s.

[Irishswissernie]

Yes its Letterkenny shed, its captioned so on the Flickr album but I keep forgetting that the captions don't come up if I link one of my flickr photos to here. There is a CDRJC tank hiding in the undergrowth at their yard on the right of the photo.

Ernie 

[irishrail201]

The whistle from one of the Lough Swilly big giants will be fitted to our Avonside loco "Nancy", a lough swilly engine will be heard again for the first time in generations!

link below for funding, we have fully funded her restoration £165,000 in all, we just need to fund her return home!