Image Talacre signal box (LNW, 1903)
Talacre signal box (LNW, 1903)
Talacre signal box (LNW, 1903) The size of Talacre signal box would suggest that it was a relatively insignificant block post on the North Wales coastal route. However, the 1903 L&NWR box was a busy one complete with its twenty-four levers (later reduced to fifteen) that controlled access to a number of reception sidings and the short branches in and out of Point of Ayr colliery. The colliery (the most northerly in Wales) closed in August 1996 with the last train leaving with the coal mined prior to closure a month later. During my last visit, the box had gone but the pair of sidings into the once-busy colliery complex were still extant disappearing into a mass of trees that had taken over in the intervening years. I will upload the image and provide a link when I get to it which at the present rate of knots will be in abut ten years' time! Keywords: Talacre signal box L&NWR 1903
Talacre signal box (LNW, 1903) The size of Talacre signal box would suggest that it was a relatively insignificant block post on the North Wales coastal route. However, the 1903 L&NWR box was a busy one complete with its twenty-four levers (later reduced to fifteen) that controlled access to a number of reception sidings and the short branches in and out of Point of Ayr colliery. The colliery (the most northerly in Wales) closed in August 1996 with the last train leaving with the coal mined prior to closure a month later. During my last visit, the box had gone but the pair of sidings into the once-busy colliery complex were still extant disappearing into a mass of trees that had taken over in the intervening years. I will upload the image and provide a link when I get to it which at the present rate of knots will be in abut ten years' time! Keywords: Talacre signal box L&NWR 1903


The size of Talacre signal box would suggest that it

was a relatively insignificant block post on the North Wales coastal route. However, the 1903 L&NWR box was a busy one complete with its twenty-four levers (later reduced to fifteen) that controlled access to a number of reception sidings and the short branches in and out of Point of Ayr colliery. The colliery (the most northerly in Wales) closed in August 1996 with the last train leaving with the coal mined prior to closure a month later. During my last visit, the box had gone but the pair of sidings into the once-busy colliery complex were still extant disappearing into a mass of trees that had taken over in the intervening years. I will upload the image and provide a link when I get to it which at the present rate of knots will be in abut ten years' time!