Image Banavie Signaling Centre signal box (BR, 1987)
Banavie Signaling Centre signal box (BR, 1987)
Banavie Signaling Centre signal box (BR, 1987) I hesitate to call Banavie Signalling Centre a signal box but BR (Scottish Region) certainly made an effort to create a design that resembles one with its hipped slate roof and general design. At least it's not a portacabin unceremoniously dumped on the platform! This non-standard design was opened on 14.06.87 as a non-block post fitted with an individual function switch panel. In late 1987 it was upgraded to a block post controlling RETB all the way to Mallaig and the short distance to Fort William Junction. In the Spring of 1988, RETB control was extended to control the entire Oban line from Helensburgh and the Fort Willaim line via Tyndrum Upper. This final move precipitated the closure of all the mechanical signalling on the West Highland lines all except the strange anomaly of Mallaig Junction and, until 2011 Annat Junction, where the Corpach Scottish Pulp and Paper Mill had a crossing over the line at Lochaber. This crossing was converted to a CCTV remote crossing and led to the closure of a very unusual design of box. Keywords: Banavie Signaling Centre signal box BR 1987
Banavie Signaling Centre signal box (BR, 1987) I hesitate to call Banavie Signalling Centre a signal box but BR (Scottish Region) certainly made an effort to create a design that resembles one with its hipped slate roof and general design. At least it's not a portacabin unceremoniously dumped on the platform! This non-standard design was opened on 14.06.87 as a non-block post fitted with an individual function switch panel. In late 1987 it was upgraded to a block post controlling RETB all the way to Mallaig and the short distance to Fort William Junction. In the Spring of 1988, RETB control was extended to control the entire Oban line from Helensburgh and the Fort Willaim line via Tyndrum Upper. This final move precipitated the closure of all the mechanical signalling on the West Highland lines all except the strange anomaly of Mallaig Junction and, until 2011 Annat Junction, where the Corpach Scottish Pulp and Paper Mill had a crossing over the line at Lochaber. This crossing was converted to a CCTV remote crossing and led to the closure of a very unusual design of box. Keywords: Banavie Signaling Centre signal box BR 1987


I hesitate to call Banavie Signalling Centre a signal box

but BR (Scottish Region) certainly made an effort to create a design that resembles one with its hipped slate roof and general design. At least it's not a portacabin unceremoniously dumped on the platform! This non-standard design was opened on 14.06.87 as a non-block post fitted with an individual function switch panel. In late 1987 it was upgraded to a block post controlling RETB all the way to Mallaig and the short distance to Fort William Junction. In the Spring of 1988, RETB control was extended to control the entire Oban line from Helensburgh and the Fort Willaim line via Tyndrum Upper. This final move precipitated the closure of all the mechanical signalling on the West Highland lines all except the strange anomaly of Mallaig Junction and, until 2011 Annat Junction, where the Corpach Scottish Pulp and Paper Mill had a crossing over the line at Lochaber. This crossing was converted to a CCTV remote crossing and led to the closure of a very unusual design of box.