A busy scene at Battersby station as the up and down mid-morning services pass each other. The two-car Class 101 DMU to the left working the 10.40 Middlesborough to Whitby will leave second to the one to the right forming the 10.13 Whitby to Middlesborough. Once the two trains have departed and the signalman returns the arms to danger peace will then prevail for the next couple of hours or so in what is a pretty remote part of the North Yorkshire countryside. Today the signal box and semaphores are no more with No Signalman Token Remote (NSTR) in operation controlled by the drivers. I took an image of this in operation during my last visit with the driver standing at a point probably directly in front of me in this particular image, see....
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