Image Folkestone East signal box (BR, 1962)
Folkestone East signal box (BR, 1962)
Folkestone East signal box (BR, 1962) Folkestone East signal box took some finding after resorting to studying Google Earth on my mobile 'phone! Andy and I eventually tracked it down by driving into Highfield Industrial estate. Right at the top end of the estate, this view of the box was revealed above a stack of accident damaged cars awaiting repair! The box is rarely photographed due to its location and I have found precious amount of information about it, apart from it being a British Railways structure dating from 1962. The box sits on the disused platform of Folkestone East station that was closed in September 1965. According to my relatively up to date track atlas, there is a Folkestone East Staff halt still in existence. As the name suggests, it is for staff needing to get to the stabling point and sidings just east of Folkestone. This is a similar situation to that found at Hoo Junction Staff halt, that Andy and I visited last year during our previous trip to Kent. Keywords: Folkestone East signal box
Folkestone East signal box (BR, 1962) Folkestone East signal box took some finding after resorting to studying Google Earth on my mobile 'phone! Andy and I eventually tracked it down by driving into Highfield Industrial estate. Right at the top end of the estate, this view of the box was revealed above a stack of accident damaged cars awaiting repair! The box is rarely photographed due to its location and I have found precious amount of information about it, apart from it being a British Railways structure dating from 1962. The box sits on the disused platform of Folkestone East station that was closed in September 1965. According to my relatively up to date track atlas, there is a Folkestone East Staff halt still in existence. As the name suggests, it is for staff needing to get to the stabling point and sidings just east of Folkestone. This is a similar situation to that found at Hoo Junction Staff halt, that Andy and I visited last year during our previous trip to Kent. Keywords: Folkestone East signal box


Folkestone East signal box took some finding after resorting to

studying Google Earth on my mobile 'phone! Andy and I eventually tracked it down by driving into Highfield Industrial estate. Right at the top end of the estate, this view of the box was revealed above a stack of accident damaged cars awaiting repair! The box is rarely photographed due to its location and I have found precious amount of information about it, apart from it being a British Railways structure dating from 1962. The box sits on the disused platform of Folkestone East station that was closed in September 1965. According to my relatively up to date track atlas, there is a Folkestone East Staff halt still in existence. As the name suggests, it is for staff needing to get to the stabling point and sidings just east of Folkestone. This is a similar situation to that found at Hoo Junction Staff halt, that Andy and I visited last year during our previous trip to Kent.