Once strung with lengths of wire enabling the railway to communicate with itself this telegraph pole (along with a phalanx of others) still stands adjacent to a road bridge that crosses the very northern section of the Settle and Carlisle railway near the village of Cotehill. Normally, once the poles fell into disuse they were felled with just stumps left on the ground to rot for example see....
https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/30014749301/x222016-09-00-sheffield-london-st The survival of this and the others on this stretch of line is a strange thing.