Image Wath North signal box (Midland, 1899)
Wath North signal box (Midland, 1899)
Wath North signal box (Midland, 1899) Wath North signal box is passed at speed and looking at the box it appears empty suggesting that it may have been switched out. The box is classically Midland in its design dating from 1899 as is the superb Midland wooden signal post in the foreground complete with its finial. This box and the route between Wath Road and Goose Hill Junction soldiered on as a through passenger route for a few more years until mining subsidence made this impractical. The fast lines were removed first with the line continuing as a poorly used freight route until 1988. However, a spur was retained to serve the Ardagh glass factory at Monk Bretton that is still extant today (as of the time of writing in 2020) and receives regular sand trains from Middleton Towers in Norfolk. Keywords: Wath North signal box Midland Railway
Wath North signal box (Midland, 1899) Wath North signal box is passed at speed and looking at the box it appears empty suggesting that it may have been switched out. The box is classically Midland in its design dating from 1899 as is the superb Midland wooden signal post in the foreground complete with its finial. This box and the route between Wath Road and Goose Hill Junction soldiered on as a through passenger route for a few more years until mining subsidence made this impractical. The fast lines were removed first with the line continuing as a poorly used freight route until 1988. However, a spur was retained to serve the Ardagh glass factory at Monk Bretton that is still extant today (as of the time of writing in 2020) and receives regular sand trains from Middleton Towers in Norfolk. Keywords: Wath North signal box Midland Railway


Wath North signal box is passed at speed and looking

at the box it appears empty suggesting that it may have been switched out. The box is classically Midland in its design dating from 1899 as is the superb Midland wooden signal post in the foreground complete with its finial. This box and the route between Wath Road and Goose Hill Junction soldiered on as a through passenger route for a few more years until mining subsidence made this impractical. The fast lines were removed first with the line continuing as a poorly used freight route until 1988. However, a spur was retained to serve the Ardagh glass factory at Monk Bretton that is still extant today (as of the time of writing in 2020) and receives regular sand trains from Middleton Towers in Norfolk.