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}}Barking (prefix FF) is a signal cabin close to the station of the same name on London Undergrounds' District and Hammersmith & City lines of the Sub-Surface Railway (SSR). Opened in 1960, it closed in 2023 under the Four Lines Modernisation (4LM) re-signalling programme. | }}Barking (prefix FF) is a signal cabin close to the station of the same name on London Undergrounds' District and Hammersmith & City lines of the Sub-Surface Railway (SSR). Opened in March 1960, it closed in March 2023 under the Four Lines Modernisation (4LM) re-signalling programme. | ||
== District Railway == | == District Railway == | ||
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The current signal cabin opened on 30 March 1960 in conjunction with wholesale re-signalling of the railway between Bromley-by-Bow and Upminster.<ref name=":0">Horne, Mike (2020). [http://www.metadyne.co.uk/pdf_files/LTSB_new.pdf Inventory of Signal Cabins and Other Interlockings]: London Transport Railway</ref> This replaced semaphore signals as well as LMS variable block signalling controlled over three LMS-era signal boxes at Barking East, Barking West and Barking Sidings. By 11 September 1960, Barking had absorbed control of the railway between Dagenham East and Bromley-by-Bow. In keeping with the shared running agreement originally agreed by the DR and LTSR, the signal cabin was a combined facility crewed by both British Railways and London Transport signallers. The signal cabin was fitted with a pair of Westinghouse push button desks reflecting the intensity of traffic in this area as well as large geographic coverage.<ref name=":0" /> The implementation of push button desks by Westinghouse would mark the last evolutionary phase of signal cabins which had seen close to a century of continuous development since the Metropolitan Railway opened in 1863. The advent of automated programme machines coupled with push button desks would eventually give rise to the large amphitheatre-style control rooms such as Earl’s Court (opened 1966) which continue to be the staple design for railway control rooms. | The current signal cabin opened on 30 March 1960 in conjunction with wholesale re-signalling of the railway between Bromley-by-Bow and Upminster.<ref name=":0">Horne, Mike (2020). [http://www.metadyne.co.uk/pdf_files/LTSB_new.pdf Inventory of Signal Cabins and Other Interlockings]: London Transport Railway</ref> This replaced semaphore signals as well as LMS variable block signalling controlled over three LMS-era signal boxes at Barking East, Barking West and Barking Sidings. By 11 September 1960, Barking had absorbed control of the railway between Dagenham East and Bromley-by-Bow. In keeping with the shared running agreement originally agreed by the DR and LTSR, the signal cabin was a combined facility crewed by both British Railways and London Transport signallers. The signal cabin was fitted with a pair of Westinghouse push button desks reflecting the intensity of traffic in this area as well as large geographic coverage.<ref name=":0" /> The implementation of push button desks by Westinghouse would mark the last evolutionary phase of signal cabins which had seen close to a century of continuous development since the Metropolitan Railway opened in 1863. The advent of automated programme machines coupled with push button desks would eventually give rise to the large amphitheatre-style control rooms such as Earl’s Court (opened 1966) which continue to be the staple design for railway control rooms. | ||
1962 saw the final BR services calling at intermediate stations between West Ham, Barking and Upminster withdrawn and | 1962 saw the final BR services calling at intermediate stations between West Ham, Barking and Upminster mostly served by LT trains withdrawn and BR released shared ownership of those stations in 1969. The opening of Upminster Integrated Control Centre (IECC) in 1995 saw Barking relinquish control of the London Tilbury & Southend routes now operated by c2c as well the Gospel Oak to Barking line and the signal cabin became become an exclusively London Underground staffed facility. It was in this form that the signal cabin operated in up until closure. | ||
== Four Lines Modernisation (4LM) == | == Four Lines Modernisation (4LM) == |