{"id":3501,"date":"2011-02-24T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2011-02-23T00:35:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T00:35:49","slug":"brixton-station-in-the-steam-era-1950s-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-station-in-the-steam-era-1950s-footage\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton station in the steam era (1950s footage)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-station-steam-01.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton station in the steam era (1950s footage)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Filmed in the 1950s, this fascinating amateur-shot footage (below) shows a\u00a0tantalisingly\u00a0short\u00a0glimpse\u00a0of steam trains thundering through a Brixton station still controlled by\u00a0mechanical\u00a0signals.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-station-steam-04.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton station in the steam era (1950s footage)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Located at the\u00a0western\u00a0ahead of the station was the signal box and gantry which controlled station\u00a0movements. The signal box was unusual in construction, being built at street level and then rising up above the adjacent bridge over Brixton Road.<\/p>\n<p>In this view, you can see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/marks-and-spencers-brixton.html\" target=\"_blank\">Marks &amp; Spencer building<\/a> to the left, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/brixtonroad10.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bon Marche department store<\/a> is on the other side of the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0wintry\u00a0station view below (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/photos\/brixton-snow-scenes-december-2010.html\" target=\"_blank\">December 2010<\/a>), you can see that all trace of the signal box has gone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-station-steam-05.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton station in the steam era (1950s footage)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-station-steam-02.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton station in the steam era (1950s footage)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A steam train approaches Brixton station from Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below (0 &#8211; 1.30 min for the Brixton video footage)<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"580\" height=\"465\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H98D2xjBet8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">More Brixton photos<\/a>] &#8211; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/\" target=\"_blank\">Railway features<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmed in the 1950s, this fascinating amateur-shot footage (below) shows a\u00a0tantalisingly\u00a0short\u00a0glimpse\u00a0of steam trains thundering through a Brixton station still controlled by\u00a0mechanical\u00a0signals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,17,193,90],"tags":[1191,1200,125],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-photos","category-places","category-railways","tag-brixton","tag-railways","tag-steam-train"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brixton-station-steam-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-Ut","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3552,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions\/3552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}