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©  Brian Moseley, Plymouth
Webpage created: April 14, 2018
Webpage updated: April 14, 2018

        

RAILWAYS IN OLD PLYMOUTH  |  BRANCH LINE, LAIRA JUNCTION TO SUTTON HARBOUR AND NORTH QUAY (SDR/GWR/BRWR)

NORTHEY'S SIDING GROUND FRAME

The late Larry Crosier tells us that there was a siding at this spot as early as 1901 and that the twice daily freight train was booked to call here as required.  But additional sidings and a crossover were installed here during the Great War for a munitions factory.  The existing siding was extended to connect with a siding on the London and Souith Western Railway Company's Cattewater Branch to allow freight traffic to work between both points without having to occupy the main lines.

A proper signal cabin was now desirable and so a redundant box from Angarrack, in Cornwall, was brought here and put in to use on March 27th 1916.  This small Box measured only 12 feet 6 inches by 10 feet and had 12 levers.

Northeys Siding Ground Frame was closed on or as from May 16th 1922.
  With grateful acknowledgement to the late Mr Laurence 'Larry' William Crosier (1929-2010) of the Great Western Railway Company (1943-1947);
British Railways (1948-c1994); the Plymouth Railway Circle, the Lee Moor Tramway Preservation Society, and the Signalling Record Society.