KSE Signalling Project

You may remember that we've been having various castings made for NER CD signal components, frame components, NER ND lattice parts and block shelf brackets. These have now been completed, and machining is well underway. On the CD signal component machining, the spectacles and back blinds have now been completed: these are now ready for painting! The spindles are almost complete, and the other parts just require holes drilling. Some of these are easy, some are causing a bit of head scratching, as they fit onto a tapered post, therefore require drilling at a corresponding angle to the taper. The carefully aligned key way in one of the backblinds The stack of spectacles>  **probably worth cropping down a bit! Are these the first NER CD components to be cast in over 120 years? The new grids for the top of the lattice posts: these hold the corners of the posts in position and support the finials on top One of the lever pivot supports was missing from the kit of parts. A replacement h

The previous post featured an LNER-pattern ground signal: this is an LMS-pattern variant. As mentioned quite a while ago, this is very in-keeping for Kirkby Stephen, as they were used here from the 1950s. The LNER-pattern are upper quadrant, as opposed to the lower quadrant LMS...  This signal (above) will control movements into the Bay platform or the Tebay platform, from the point ends, to allow greater flexibility with shunting. Standard convention dictates the uppermost disc refers to the left-hand-most route, therefore the top is for the Bay, and the bottom for the Tebay platform. This was another bench building, mole-digging type of affair. They're quite common throughout this part of the project!! Between Dave, Alex, Steve and I, the ground signal was planted and bolted down at one corner, just in time for the Open Weekend, complete with temporary discs attached. We will be getting a batch of new discs made a little later. This just left the rest of the bolting down to be co