M&GN Signalling

This is a small collection of images of M&GN signals, signal boxes and other items for your information. They are arranged in no particular order.
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The signalman at the Up tablet machine, East RudhamConcrete bracket signal erected at Melton West in 1922A typical GN-type ground signal as used on the M&GN. This one has been repainted with a yellow face.
Midland and GN signals at South Lynn, with 4-4-0 No.80The interior of Yarmouth Yard box c.1883, showing the Saxby & Farmer rocking lever frame.Page from the 1913 Appendix showing sketches of the Tyer's Tablet Apparatus.
A classic H.C.Casserley view of Yarmouth Beach in 1935, showing the starting signals, simplified by the use of route indicators.The 1903 Yarmouth Yard box, the largest on the M&GN with 86 levers, in a Midland tumbler frame.An M&GN signal today. The Sheringham Down Distant (fixed) on a Marriott concrete post of c.1921.
A sister concrete bracket signal to that at Melton, erected at Sutton Bridge c.1922Colour-light signals on the M&GN at South Lynn.Cromer Beach in the early 1930s, with the GN bracket starter signals erected c.1906. The little tumbler ground signal was an M&GN invention, controlling exit from the 'back bay' road.
The standard M&GN type 1a box at Briningham JunctionExchanging the tablet at Massingham, Midland box with concrete block base, a classic H.C.Casserley view.Eye Green Down Starter, with gate distant below. Concrete post.
The rather archaic signalling on the Down Line at Norwich City in the 1920s, with minatures for both directions of running on the same post. The Up platform starters have been replaced with a concrete post bracket signal.The interior of Overstrand box 1914.

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