Image Spalding No. 2 signal box (GN, 1920)
Spalding No. 2 signal box (GN, 1920)
Spalding No. 2 signal box (GN, 1920) A little photographed signal box was Spalding No. 2 to the north of the station on the route to Sleaford. It was built relatively late in 1920 by the Great Northern as part of a rationalisation of signalling in the Spalding area whereby six boxes was reduced to just two. Notice the rather overgrown sidings in the background. For fifty-one weeks of the year, these would see very little or no use only to be packed with charter trains during the town's flower festival in early May an event that sadly took place for the last time in 2014. Notice the signalman keeping a careful eye on Graham and I as we take our photographs. Interestingly, the same character also features in another photograph of the box taken a year later also keeping an eye on the photographer on that occasion too, see..... https://www.flickr.com/photos/47422047@N07/17006342146 Keywords: Spalding No. 2 signal box
Spalding No. 2 signal box (GN, 1920) A little photographed signal box was Spalding No. 2 to the north of the station on the route to Sleaford. It was built relatively late in 1920 by the Great Northern as part of a rationalisation of signalling in the Spalding area whereby six boxes was reduced to just two. Notice the rather overgrown sidings in the background. For fifty-one weeks of the year, these would see very little or no use only to be packed with charter trains during the town's flower festival in early May an event that sadly took place for the last time in 2014. Notice the signalman keeping a careful eye on Graham and I as we take our photographs. Interestingly, the same character also features in another photograph of the box taken a year later also keeping an eye on the photographer on that occasion too, see..... https://www.flickr.com/photos/47422047@N07/17006342146 Keywords: Spalding No. 2 signal box


A little photographed signal box was Spalding No. 2 to the north of the station on the route to Sleaford. It was built relatively late in 1920 by the Great Northern as part of a rationalisation of signalling in the Spalding area whereby six boxes was reduced to just two. Notice the rather overgrown sidings in the background. For fifty-one weeks of the year, these would see very little or no use only to be packed with charter trains during the town's flower festival in early May an event that sadly took place for the last time in 2014. Notice the signalman keeping a careful eye on Graham and I as we take our photographs. Interestingly, the same character also features in another photograph of the box taken a year later also keeping an eye on the photographer on that occasion too, see..... https://www.flickr.com/photos/47422047@N07/17006342146