A day at Llangollen Goods Junction 

Llangollen Railway one of the best heritage railways to have visited and is like stepping back in time to the late c1950s. Superb!

I spent so many years picking up and dropping off tokens at Good box that is was really nice to see it from the other side :) Keep up the great work guys :) Maverick

takes me back to my childhood in the 80's with my dad in the SB on a weekend on british rail .

I've worked a number of signal boxes, but never one with token block. Looks like a lot of additional work.

That's good old Dom from S&T with the kids hi-vis on, always good to see him coming up the steps when something goes wrong in your box!

Love this! Thank you for sharing.

God bless all Railway Employee

Excellent and very informative video - thanks very much. I first experienced the use of these token machines in the mid 1970s at Wharf station on the Talyllyn railway whilst visiting during lunch hour from the school. That extended into skiving games lessons etc and I will remain very much indebted to Phil Care and David Woodhouse for teaching me everything I knew back then, and for the references to get me onto the "big railway" in 1978 when I spent some times in Machynlleth box with the same EKTs. What I had never experienced until this video was the procedures for opening and closing a signal box so thanks verry much, also to the fantastic Llangollen railway for recreating the 1950s and 1960s British railways scene.

ive just applied for a grade 2 role to get started really hope i get it it looks really intresting

Excellent video. Nice to see the opening and closing sequence of the box. What happened to lever 24? It decided it would stay locked and refused to budge! I note there is a small piece edited out as the video continues with 24 already replaced back to normal. What happened to keep it locked?

I take it you have done this before, or are you a very fast learner? It looks incredibly complicated. Was a very entertaining video!

What’s with the brown levers? Why does one have a single white band, and why does the other have multiple? What do they control?

I’d love to work that for a day

Why the collar on the section signal Dom?

Signalmen certainly wear shorts a lot.

Get the orders, line the route, engage the interlock and set the signal The previous and the next control point should not be able to set a green towards your control point Station 1 sets NB green track green, and you line the track and set NB green, and station 3 lines track 1 and sets NB green You can't set SB green on track 1, neither can control point 3 It is very complicated, and the equipment prevents anyone from being able to set a green against a green, even after the green has dropped

FOR GOD SAKES DON'T TOUCH THAT !!!!!!!!!

So complicated

The ATCS is All handled now in America by the computer The dispatcher sets the route, and the control points line and lock and set the greens as soon as they are able What you see is the first route set in the morning, say 5am, and as soon as the train clears the control point, and is out of the terminal, they next set of commands is sent, and the BCP tells the MCPs what the next route will be, so each control point is set, and the next train might not be do for 4 hours, or in some cases 2 days. Seeing the data and how soon it transmitted it, I was shocked The entire days commands, just 6 routes set, and the BCP log showed those 6 The MCPs transmitted the actual occupancy and every time something changes or every 60 seconds So you might see the Control point MCP send a new indication every 5 seconds All of what is happening, the computer is handling all of it No one is actually seeing all this data, all the indications and commands All the things these people are doing manually, it is all done in the background by computers So many jobs gone

Were signal men schooled at the same place as brain surgeon’s and Astrophysicist’s ? Seems to be the most over complicated and confusing thing ever !