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A steam railway has submitted plans to recreate a signal box. Many of the original bricks have been reclaimed to rebuild the Horsehay and Dawley box on the Telford Steam Railway, staff from the ...
A railway signal box has been dismantled by engineers to start a new life 330 miles (531km) away. The structure in the village of Wye, in Kent, is no longer needed by Network Rail. Instead, it ...
A railway signal box is being demolished as part of a project to open a station on a new line. The structure, at Newsham Station in Blyth, Northumberland, was built as part of the Blyth and Tyne ...
The box, which is more than 130 years old, was due to be demolished, but after months of negotiations by one of the volunteers at Helston Railway, Network Rail agreed to repurpose it.
Built in 1893, Wye Signal Box is a Saxby & Farmer Type 12 design - a typical style on the South Eastern Railway and the London, Chatham & Dover Railway between 1890 and 1894.
In September, Telford Steam Railway requested planning permission to recreate a signal box at Horsehay and Dawley station. The original signal box was built in 1883 and served the Much Wenlock ...
Signal box numbers peaked at around 12,000-13,000 for Great Britain, just prior to the First World War. But by 1970, the number of them had dropped to about 4,000.
Nene Valley Railway signal box was set on fire Credit: Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service They were there until 11.50pm but just as they were leaving, they were called to another fire - this ...