Image Longforgan signal box (LMS, 1929)
Longforgan signal box (LMS, 1929)
Longforgan signal box (LMS, 1929) As was common practice in times past, the names given to stations, and in this case, the adjacent signal box, often related to the settlements that they professed to serve that were some distance away. The village of Longforgan is some two miles from the railway that runs along the side of the Firth of Tay between Dundee and Perth. The station closed on 11.06.56 but the delightful LMS box dating from 1929 remains. The box controls the level crossing and just two semaphores. The box typifies the LMS' approach to the design of its Scottish division boxes having the small extension at the front and a sprocketed roof. It's a shame that the frame roof windows have been bricked up but this must have been done very early as I can find no photographs of the box with them glazed. Keywords: Longforgan signal box LMS
Longforgan signal box (LMS, 1929) As was common practice in times past, the names given to stations, and in this case, the adjacent signal box, often related to the settlements that they professed to serve that were some distance away. The village of Longforgan is some two miles from the railway that runs along the side of the Firth of Tay between Dundee and Perth. The station closed on 11.06.56 but the delightful LMS box dating from 1929 remains. The box controls the level crossing and just two semaphores. The box typifies the LMS' approach to the design of its Scottish division boxes having the small extension at the front and a sprocketed roof. It's a shame that the frame roof windows have been bricked up but this must have been done very early as I can find no photographs of the box with them glazed. Keywords: Longforgan signal box LMS


As was common practice in times past, the names given

to stations, and in this case, the adjacent signal box, often related to the settlements that they professed to serve that were some distance away. The village of Longforgan is some two miles from the railway that runs along the side of the Firth of Tay between Dundee and Perth. The station closed on 11.06.56 but the delightful LMS box dating from 1929 remains. The box controls the level crossing and just two semaphores. The box typifies the LMS' approach to the design of its Scottish division boxes having the small extension at the front and a sprocketed roof. It's a shame that the frame roof windows have been bricked up but this must have been done very early as I can find no photographs of the box with them glazed.