One of the benefits of having an online presence at Tracks through Grantham is that it encourages collaboration with other projects where they overlap with the Grantham area's railway history.
Malcolm Rush has been in touch to tell us about an album on Flickr where he's publishing his hand-drawn signal box track diagrams, photographs and other information.
In 1965-67 Malcolm visited nearly 200 signal boxes up and down the country. Each visit had a purpose - to create a record of the box and the lines it controlled. What wonderful foresight, as a 13-year-old, to record details of so many signal boxes while they remained operational! Five of the boxes he visited were in the Tracks through Grantham area.
At Tracks through Grantham an ambition is to prepare a page on the website for every signal box in the Grantham area. Several boxes are already covered, but in few cases have we found copies of a track diagram, a vital item in every box showing the purpose of each lever along with track circuit and other important information. A key purpose of Malcolm's visits was to create a hand-drawn copy of the track diagram displayed in each box. Thus his project is a perfect complement to five of our signal box pages and we're delighted to recommend it to you.
Malcolm himself explains here how his interest took root, and here is an index of all the boxes he visited.
Thanks to the support of the then Grantham Station Manager Alec Wise, on Friday 4th January 1967 Malcolm visited the five Grantham area boxes under his supervision. Follow the links below to find Malcolm's diagrams, notes and photographs.
Grantham area signal boxes in alphabetical order:
Gonerby Siding - a new page
Four of the above boxes were previously featured on our website, the exception being Gonerby Siding box - until now. Encouraged by Malcolm's project we've put that right and you'll find our new Gonerby Siding signal box page here.