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The station was fully staffed until closure. Track-lifting commenced in 1967, Shillingstone being tackled between March and May. The signal box and platform shelters were demolished at this time, and the last train through the station was the demolition train, hauled by a small diesel shunter. [1]
Main building at Shillingstone Station being refurbished in Southern Railway colours, October 2007. In 2009, 210 feet (64 m) of the up main track through the station was laid and ballasted using 110a and 113a flat bottom rail and wooden sleepers. The Ruston & Hornsby diesel shunter was moved from the isolated goods dock.
The station is one of the best-preserved on the Somerset and Dorset line since the railway's closure in 1966. It opened on Monday 31 August 1863 and closed just over a century later on Sunday 6 March 1966. The station is undergoing extensive restoration by the Shillingstone Station Project, supported by the North Dorset Railway Trust. [12]
92207 under restoration at Shillingstone since 2005. Formerly at the East Lancs Railway, £100,000 has already been spent on the bottom end and a plethora of parts of all sizes since rescue from Barry in 1986. Built by BR (W) in Swindon "A" Shop during May 1959, 92207 was the 13th-from-last steam locomotive to be built for British Railways. It ...
The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR, also known as the S&D, S&DR or SDJR), was an English railway line jointly owned by the Midland Railway (MR) and the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) that grew to connect Bath (in north-east Somerset) and Bournemouth (then in Hampshire; now in south-east Dorset), with a branch in Somerset from Evercreech Junction to Burnham-on-Sea and Bridgwater.
A mechanical lever frame inside the signal box at Knockcroghery in Ireland Waterloo station A signalbox, LSWR (Howden, Boys' Book of Locomotives, 1907). Mechanical railway signalling installations rely on lever frames for their operation to interlock the signals, track locks [1] and points to allow the safe operation of trains in the area the signals control.
The signal box at Leekbrook Junction in 2011 This single platform at Kingsley & Froghall station was supplemented by the restoration of the second platform in 2008 using grant money. [ 14 ] The wooden waiting shelter was re-built to the original 1849 design and incorporated the original brick foundations. [ 14 ]
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