When I last visited Park South signal box in October 1985 there was no huge road viaduct in the background. Also, finding it using my Ordnance Survey map of the same vintage led to some problems with roads that didn't exist anymore but, in the end, with a bit of a 'gut feeling' we found it nestling down in the valley just north of Barrow-in-Furness. Park South signal box is Furness Railway type 3 structure dating from 1883. It is located a few yards north of Park South Junction that was formally named Thwaite Flat Junction. It controls manually the level crossing on the minor road that drops steeply down from Dalton.
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