Image Neilson Sidings Signal Box (BR, c.1965)
Neilson Sidings Signal Box (BR, c.1965)
Neilson Sidings Signal Box (BR, c.1965) This is the nearest that Graham and I could get to Neilson Sidings signal box (as opposed to Neilson's Sidings) and even then we received a tirade of verbal abuse from the owner of the yard into which we had ventured to get the photograph. It is a British Railways (London Midland Region) Type 15 design fitted with a twenty lever London Midland Region standard frame and controlled the complex signalling and points within the yard that still exists today but that is mainly used by stone and infrastructure trains. Both boxes are named after a local farmer and landowner Walter Neilson who owned much of the land stretching out in the distance. He developed his land by mining iron ore and close to the surface and built a network of narrow gauge routes to get the ore to the mainline in this yard and also directly into the ironworks that was located where I am standing. Notice the spire of the fourteenth century St Mary the Virgin church in Finedon on the skyline. The current reverend is the well-known broadcaster and former Communards band member Richard Coles.
Neilson Sidings Signal Box (BR, c.1965) This is the nearest that Graham and I could get to Neilson Sidings signal box (as opposed to Neilson's Sidings) and even then we received a tirade of verbal abuse from the owner of the yard into which we had ventured to get the photograph. It is a British Railways (London Midland Region) Type 15 design fitted with a twenty lever London Midland Region standard frame and controlled the complex signalling and points within the yard that still exists today but that is mainly used by stone and infrastructure trains. Both boxes are named after a local farmer and landowner Walter Neilson who owned much of the land stretching out in the distance. He developed his land by mining iron ore and close to the surface and built a network of narrow gauge routes to get the ore to the mainline in this yard and also directly into the ironworks that was located where I am standing. Notice the spire of the fourteenth century St Mary the Virgin church in Finedon on the skyline. The current reverend is the well-known broadcaster and former Communards band member Richard Coles.


This is the nearest that Graham and I could get

to Neilson Sidings signal box (as opposed to Neilson's Sidings) and even then we received a tirade of verbal abuse from the owner of the yard into which we had ventured to get the photograph. It is a British Railways (London Midland Region) Type 15 design fitted with a twenty lever London Midland Region standard frame and controlled the complex signalling and points within the yard that still exists today but that is mainly used by stone and infrastructure trains. Both boxes are named after a local farmer and landowner Walter Neilson who owned much of the land stretching out in the distance. He developed his land by mining iron ore and close to the surface and built a network of narrow gauge routes to get the ore to the mainline in this yard and also directly into the ironworks that was located where I am standing. Notice the spire of the fourteenth century St Mary the Virgin church in Finedon on the skyline. The current reverend is the well-known broadcaster and former Communards band member Richard Coles.