It was interesting to read about my home-town station in recent issues of Steam World as it tends to be forgotten, along with Hull and Scarborough.
Back in the 1960s when Iwas trainspotting, Bridlington had six platforms plus two excursion platforms, a three road engine shed with its own allocation of engines, two turntables, a large goods yard, coal drops separate from the goods yard, two signal gantries with upper and lower quadrant signals, two signal cabins and extensive carriage sidings for the summer trip trains.
We now have been promised, in October this year, a single through platform and a bay platform, but what is more important, we are to loose all the semaphore signals to be replaced with multiple aspect colour lights.
I was lucky enough, recently, to…