Image Hilgay signal box (LNER, c.1925)
Hilgay signal box (LNER, c.1925)
Hilgay signal box (LNER, c.1925) An antiquated scene at Hilgay that could well be dating from a much earlier era only dated by the signalman’s Mk. IV Cortina in the background. Hilgay box was installed by the LNER around 1925 when the company was undertaking a cost-saving exercise by rationalising their signalling; sounds familiar doesn’t it! This box and frame were actually second-hand when erected here but, as eagle-eyed readers will have noted, it would have come from the Great Eastern as it is actually one of their 1881/2 designs. Its original location prior to being here at Hilgay remains unknown. The box was closed in 1982 just two years after this photograph was taken when the block post was extended to run between Downham Market and Littleport was created and the manual gates automated. Keywords: Hilgay signal box LNER
Hilgay signal box (LNER, c.1925) An antiquated scene at Hilgay that could well be dating from a much earlier era only dated by the signalman’s Mk. IV Cortina in the background. Hilgay box was installed by the LNER around 1925 when the company was undertaking a cost-saving exercise by rationalising their signalling; sounds familiar doesn’t it! This box and frame were actually second-hand when erected here but, as eagle-eyed readers will have noted, it would have come from the Great Eastern as it is actually one of their 1881/2 designs. Its original location prior to being here at Hilgay remains unknown. The box was closed in 1982 just two years after this photograph was taken when the block post was extended to run between Downham Market and Littleport was created and the manual gates automated. Keywords: Hilgay signal box LNER


An antiquated scene at Hilgay that could well be dating

from a much earlier era only dated by the signalman’s Mk. IV Cortina in the background. Hilgay box was installed by the LNER around 1925 when the company was undertaking a cost-saving exercise by rationalising their signalling; sounds familiar doesn’t it! This box and frame were actually second-hand when erected here but, as eagle-eyed readers will have noted, it would have come from the Great Eastern as it is actually one of their 1881/2 designs. Its original location prior to being here at Hilgay remains unknown. The box was closed in 1982 just two years after this photograph was taken when the block post was extended to run between Downham Market and Littleport was created and the manual gates automated.