The delightful Kirkham Abbey signal box and its mechanical gates are seen in the gathering evening gloom. The box is a North Eastern Railway structure dating from circa 1873 built signal box was built type S1a design and it contains a McKenzie & Holland sixteen-lever frame. The box is a grade II listed structure and according to Historic England it is built in "red brick with slate roofs. The ground floor has 2 round-headed windows with glazing bars to the northeast front. A first-floor ashlar bond supports an iron bracketed balcony which runs around 3 sides of the building. This is reached up a set of external wooden steps. The north-east front has 2 large sliding sashes with glazing bars, side walls have a single similar window each, that to the south-east with a door as well. Rear front has a projecting central stack, flanked by single round-headed windows with glazing bars." *
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