Image Helsby Junction signal box (LNW, 1900)
Helsby Junction signal box (LNW, 1900)
Helsby Junction signal box (LNW, 1900) I have a number of photographs of Helsby Junction signal box, to give it its proper name, but they have been conventional ones so I opted for something a little different. With an extreme wide-angled view such as this, I would normally subject it to some Photoshop treatment to straighten out the converging verticals but not this time. The box is a superb London and North Western Type 4 structure dating from 1900 that has undergone a tasteful and sympathetic refurbishment by Railtrack back in 2007. My only criticism of this modernisation work is that the replacement window frames are clumsily thick necessitated by them being of UPVC construction. As the box is Grade II listed so when the inevitable replacement of the mechanical signalling takes place it will be retained on the platform perhaps going over to some sort of community use perhaps? Keywords: Helsby Junction signal box L&NWR
Helsby Junction signal box (LNW, 1900) I have a number of photographs of Helsby Junction signal box, to give it its proper name, but they have been conventional ones so I opted for something a little different. With an extreme wide-angled view such as this, I would normally subject it to some Photoshop treatment to straighten out the converging verticals but not this time. The box is a superb London and North Western Type 4 structure dating from 1900 that has undergone a tasteful and sympathetic refurbishment by Railtrack back in 2007. My only criticism of this modernisation work is that the replacement window frames are clumsily thick necessitated by them being of UPVC construction. As the box is Grade II listed so when the inevitable replacement of the mechanical signalling takes place it will be retained on the platform perhaps going over to some sort of community use perhaps? Keywords: Helsby Junction signal box L&NWR


I have a number of photographs of Helsby Junction signal

box, to give it its proper name, but they have been conventional ones so I opted for something a little different. With an extreme wide-angled view such as this, I would normally subject it to some Photoshop treatment to straighten out the converging verticals but not this time. The box is a superb London and North Western Type 4 structure dating from 1900 that has undergone a tasteful and sympathetic refurbishment by Railtrack back in 2007. My only criticism of this modernisation work is that the replacement window frames are clumsily thick necessitated by them being of UPVC construction. As the box is Grade II listed so when the inevitable replacement of the mechanical signalling takes place it will be retained on the platform perhaps going over to some sort of community use perhaps?