Image Norton South signal box (NE, 1870)
Norton South signal box (NE, 1870)
Norton South signal box (NE, 1870) A very tricky signal box to get to is Norton South Junction that is located in the middle of a housing estate with no trackside access. Consequently, I have had to make do with this rather poor image taken standing on a wall looking across gardens using my zoom lens on full! However, it was important to secure a photograph as at this time it was the oldest operational signal box on the network dating from 1870. However, the historical significance of this will not save the signal box as it is due to be replaced as the whole Durham Coast route is due to be modernised with control moving to the York Signalling Centre. Thus, the curtain will come down on nearly one hundred and fifty years of consistent operation; it’s an interesting thought that there are few things done the same today as they were back in Victorian times. Keywords: Norton South signal box North Eastern Railway
Norton South signal box (NE, 1870) A very tricky signal box to get to is Norton South Junction that is located in the middle of a housing estate with no trackside access. Consequently, I have had to make do with this rather poor image taken standing on a wall looking across gardens using my zoom lens on full! However, it was important to secure a photograph as at this time it was the oldest operational signal box on the network dating from 1870. However, the historical significance of this will not save the signal box as it is due to be replaced as the whole Durham Coast route is due to be modernised with control moving to the York Signalling Centre. Thus, the curtain will come down on nearly one hundred and fifty years of consistent operation; it’s an interesting thought that there are few things done the same today as they were back in Victorian times. Keywords: Norton South signal box North Eastern Railway


A very tricky signal box to get to is Norton

South Junction that is located in the middle of a housing estate with no trackside access. Consequently, I have had to make do with this rather poor image taken standing on a wall looking across gardens using my zoom lens on full! However, it was important to secure a photograph as at this time it was the oldest operational signal box on the network dating from 1870. However, the historical significance of this will not save the signal box as it is due to be replaced as the whole Durham Coast route is due to be modernised with control moving to the York Signalling Centre. Thus, the curtain will come down on nearly one hundred and fifty years of consistent operation; it’s an interesting thought that there are few things done the same today as they were back in Victorian times.