Even on a benign but cloudy August day Blea Moor

signal box is a pretty isolated place to be high up on the fells at one thousand one hundred feet and in the shadow of the bulk of Whernside over which traverses the Pennine Way long distance footpath. However, on a stormy night in December, it must be a heck of a place to work; it's no wonder that the stove pipe is at a jaunty angle!