1. Control Room
04_man_vic/R12_control_room.jpgR12 View of the control room with staff at their desks
2. Empty Control Room
04_man_vic/R13_control_unstaffed.jpgR13 View of the Control Room without the staff
3. Along the Desks
04_man_vic/R14_control_map_centre.jpgR14 Looking the other way you can see the large map of the Central Division.
4. Long shot to right
04_man_vic/R15_control_map_lhs.jpgR15 Looking along the desks but towards the blank wall
5. Long shot to left
04_man_vic/R16_control_map_rhs.jpgR16 Looking along the desks but towards the windows
6. Desk Number 4
04_man_vic/R17_desk_no4_blackpool.jpgR17 The track schematic on No 4 desk. It covers Preston and Blackpool, North and Central.
7. Wartime Switchboards
04_man_vic/R18_wartime_switchboards.jpgR18 This picture appears to date back to wartime. A control office in an underground passageway.
There's no clue as to where it might be. It may have been included to show what conditions were like before the new office, in the other pictures, was opened.
8. Supervisors
04_man_vic/R19_gloomy_supervisors.jpgR19 These are the control office supervisors that we saw standing in the first picture in the sequence.
They look a gloomy bunch.
9. Desk with Lid Open
04_man_vic/R20_desk_open.jpgR20. Here's one of the control desks with the lid open. The hand diving in from the left
is showing that the switch panels are plug connected making it possible to remove one for maintenance.
10. View across Room
04_man_vic/R21_desks.jpgR21 A view across the supervisors' desks. the cord switchboard is visible in the background.
11. Desk Open
04_man_vic/R22_desk_open.jpgR22 Another desk with the lid open. Yes, I guess it's desk No 4 again.
The panel to right contains the diagram for Southport.
12. Cable Turning Chamber
04_man_vic/R23_turning_chamber.jpgR23 A cable turning chamber. I'm not sure I'd want to work on the floor
above which appears to be held up with Acro props.
13. Equipment Rack
04_man_vic/R24_equipment_rack.jpgR24 An equipment rack with one cover removed to display the relay set.
Evidently there were two circuits to a can. The box on the far wall with jacks and cords is of unknown function.
14. Distribution Frame
04_man_vic/R25_mdf.jpgR25 A neatly jumpered distribution frame. The boxes to the left appear to control various 24 volt supplies.
15. Jumper Field
04_man_vic/R26_jumper_field.jpgR26 The frame viewed from the other side. The power control boxes are now
in profile. The strip on the far wall appears to contain heat coils.
16. Back of the Racks
04_man_vic/R25_mdf.jpgR27. The equipment rack viewed from the rear. The cable ladder racking can be seen on the far wall.