Image Ely North Junction signal box (LNER, 1926)
Ely North Junction signal box (LNER, 1926)
Ely North Junction signal box (LNER, 1926) Ely North Junction signal box was a tricky one to get to necessitating driving on a track near the old gravel pits, parking up and walking for some distance. On arrival at the box, we then had to scramble up a bank through the undergrowth and commit a small trespass to get this photograph. The box was built in 1926 by the LNER and it was an example of their Type 11a design. It was the busiest box in the Ely area that necessitated a box lad to be rostered on day shifts. The box closed in the spring of 1992 when the signalling around Ely was modernised. Incidentally, when reversing Graham’s Austin 1100 after getting this photograph, I managed to back it into a post bending the chrome bumper and boot lid bringing an end to my learner driver experience; I remember being very upset at the time. Keywords: Ely North Junction signal box LNER London North Eastern Railway
Ely North Junction signal box (LNER, 1926) Ely North Junction signal box was a tricky one to get to necessitating driving on a track near the old gravel pits, parking up and walking for some distance. On arrival at the box, we then had to scramble up a bank through the undergrowth and commit a small trespass to get this photograph. The box was built in 1926 by the LNER and it was an example of their Type 11a design. It was the busiest box in the Ely area that necessitated a box lad to be rostered on day shifts. The box closed in the spring of 1992 when the signalling around Ely was modernised. Incidentally, when reversing Graham’s Austin 1100 after getting this photograph, I managed to back it into a post bending the chrome bumper and boot lid bringing an end to my learner driver experience; I remember being very upset at the time. Keywords: Ely North Junction signal box LNER London North Eastern Railway


Ely North Junction signal box was a tricky one to

get to necessitating driving on a track near the old gravel pits, parking up and walking for some distance. On arrival at the box, we then had to scramble up a bank through the undergrowth and commit a small trespass to get this photograph. The box was built in 1926 by the LNER and it was an example of their Type 11a design. It was the busiest box in the Ely area that necessitated a box lad to be rostered on day shifts. The box closed in the spring of 1992 when the signalling around Ely was modernised. Incidentally, when reversing Graham’s Austin 1100 after getting this photograph, I managed to back it into a post bending the chrome bumper and boot lid bringing an end to my learner driver experience; I remember being very upset at the time.