The North Eastern Railway designed Winning signal box, dating from

1895, is seen in the early morning sunshine complete with an impressive, if modern designed, bracket signal that controls Winning Junction. Notice the strange shape and orientation of the two sighting boards The level crossing now has barriers but up until 2011 it had wooden boom gates, the number of which still remain, largely confined to the northeast, are very few. The branch line leading from Winning terminates at the Alcan alumina facility at North Blyth. It also saw very infrequent trains to and from Battleship Wharf and, until closure in 2001, a lot of coal traffic to and from the North Byth power stations.