Image Chesterton Junction signal box (LNER, 1931)
Chesterton Junction signal box (LNER, 1931)
Chesterton Junction signal box (LNER, 1931) Chesterton signal box was once located in almost open countryside to the north of Cambridge adjacent to the tranquil River Cam. The 1931 LNER box is seen here taken from the level crossing that it controlled via a large wheel. It was located at the point where the St. Ives branch diverged westwards from the Ely/King’s Lyn mainline. Most of the trackbed of the St. Ives branch is now part of the infamous guided busway that opened in 2011. The box closed in November 1985 when the route between here and Ely came under the control of the Cambridge PSB. Today, the location is highly urbanised being part of north Cambridge with the city’s new Science Park (North) station being located a short distance north (over my right shoulder) from here; a very different scene than when the box first opened! Keywords: Chesterton Junction signal box LNER London and North Eastern Railway
Chesterton Junction signal box (LNER, 1931) Chesterton signal box was once located in almost open countryside to the north of Cambridge adjacent to the tranquil River Cam. The 1931 LNER box is seen here taken from the level crossing that it controlled via a large wheel. It was located at the point where the St. Ives branch diverged westwards from the Ely/King’s Lyn mainline. Most of the trackbed of the St. Ives branch is now part of the infamous guided busway that opened in 2011. The box closed in November 1985 when the route between here and Ely came under the control of the Cambridge PSB. Today, the location is highly urbanised being part of north Cambridge with the city’s new Science Park (North) station being located a short distance north (over my right shoulder) from here; a very different scene than when the box first opened! Keywords: Chesterton Junction signal box LNER London and North Eastern Railway


Chesterton signal box was once located in almost open countryside

to the north of Cambridge adjacent to the tranquil River Cam. The 1931 LNER box is seen here taken from the level crossing that it controlled via a large wheel. It was located at the point where the St. Ives branch diverged westwards from the Ely/King’s Lyn mainline. Most of the trackbed of the St. Ives branch is now part of the infamous guided busway that opened in 2011. The box closed in November 1985 when the route between here and Ely came under the control of the Cambridge PSB. Today, the location is highly urbanised being part of north Cambridge with the city’s new Science Park (North) station being located a short distance north (over my right shoulder) from here; a very different scene than when the box first opened!