Image Blankney signal box (GN, 1928)
Blankney signal box (GN, 1928)
Blankney signal box (GN, 1928) An utterly antiquated scene at Blankney level crossing! Where do we start with the list of railway infrastructure from a bygone era? We could begin with the superb array of telegraph wires and posts that carried communications between the boxes. The Great Northern slotted concrete signal post stands protecting the crossing complete with two LNER cast notices. The superb box is a Great Northern structure dating from 1928 and is what appears to be original condition having not been modified, outwardly at least! Finally, notice the LNER small blue enamel nameplate on the end of the box. The whole scene here evokes an atmosphere that has completely disappeared from today's railways that makes this one of my all-time top ten favourite photographs! Keywords: Blankney signal box Great Northern GNR
Blankney signal box (GN, 1928) An utterly antiquated scene at Blankney level crossing! Where do we start with the list of railway infrastructure from a bygone era? We could begin with the superb array of telegraph wires and posts that carried communications between the boxes. The Great Northern slotted concrete signal post stands protecting the crossing complete with two LNER cast notices. The superb box is a Great Northern structure dating from 1928 and is what appears to be original condition having not been modified, outwardly at least! Finally, notice the LNER small blue enamel nameplate on the end of the box. The whole scene here evokes an atmosphere that has completely disappeared from today's railways that makes this one of my all-time top ten favourite photographs! Keywords: Blankney signal box Great Northern GNR


An utterly antiquated scene at Blankney level crossing! Where do

we start with the list of railway infrastructure from a bygone era? We could begin with the superb array of telegraph wires and posts that carried communications between the boxes. The Great Northern slotted concrete signal post stands protecting the crossing complete with two LNER cast notices. The superb box is a Great Northern structure dating from 1928 and is what appears to be original condition having not been modified, outwardly at least! Finally, notice the LNER small blue enamel nameplate on the end of the box. The whole scene here evokes an atmosphere that has completely disappeared from today's railways that makes this one of my all-time top ten favourite photographs!