I spotted this structure on the way past earlier in

the day from the train thinking that it could be a former signal box. As we were passing on our journey home we stopped for a further look. Indeed, it is a former signal box of LNER design dating from 1942 and, being built during wartime, is of a somewhat austere design! It is attached to the former station building at Goldsborough, a small village just to the east of Knaresborough. The station closed to passengers in 1958, as was all too often the case when it was too distant from the settlement it professed to serve. The box was built to serve a rail-served cold food storage facility built by the government during the war. The facility continued in use for a number of years after 1945 before closing and then being demolished to be replaced by the modern warehousing as seen in the background of this photograph. The station building and signal box are now in use as a private residence complete with a number of solar panels!