East Guildford (2) - SignallingWA

The end of the signal box was to come about ten weeks later, when Weekly Notice 23 of 1964 contained the notice that the Three-Position Block, all the Semaphore Signals and Interlocked points at East Guildford were to be removed on Sunday, 28th June 1964. The Automatic Colour Light Signalling system was instituted between Bassendean and Midland Box 'A' and train working through the site was to be under the rules applicable, meaning that East Guildford became a partly attended passenger station. The Assistant Station Master was withdrawn on the 5th October 1964, leaving the station attended only by the Station Master between certain hours of the day. Interestingly, a Station Master was still appointed to the station during the week ending 10th April, 1965.

Neil has constructed a very good model of the station in the modelling scale known as Sn3.5 - The 'S' indicates the modelling scale (being 3/16th of an inch to 1 foot); the 'n' indicates that the model is of 'narrow gauge' railways and the 3.5, or perhaps more correctly 3 1/2, represents the gauge of the prototype railway. Until the arrival of Standard gauge in the 1960s, Western Australian railways were constructed to the gauge of 3 foot 6 inches.

This model won two awards at the AMRA Model Railway Show, where it was exhibited. SIGWA is pleased to observe a number of details: One of which, was the two 'rodding tunnels' (the black areas under the platform), the right-hand one of those indicates the location of the previous signal cabin then named Woodbridge; The other items of course, are the semaphore signals, including the co-acting Starting signal near the footbridge.