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The impressive signal gantry visible in lower photo: there are some excellent pictures of this gantry about. Anyone in a position to post one? -- asks hopefully.

Well isn't that just marvelous? This is EXACTLY as I remember it with the signal box in the V of the tracks. Very many thanks for posting such an evocative photograph.

sad sight to see i was there early hrs this morning and took some video footage of it i could'nt get in side the control room of the box but did manage to go underneath the box check it out with this link http://youtu.be/t0qTYm-Q3OY

Very sad, Culle, most of the stuff robbed. How many levers did the box have at closure? And how many in the old box in its heyday??

The bottom photo, which four track are in use today out all these. It looks a signal man's headache, how did they know what train direction to take. Look how wide the track bed is.

Cullie, my query about the number of levers has been answered by baldylocks under one of the other Crow Nest pics.

The signal box in the lower photo was better positioned...the signal man had a much better sight of train movement.

It looks like the top signal box is where the fast lines are on the bottom pic would have been.

We take one step forward and fifty steps back, what's the point to close a Signal Box if the line is still being used?? Health and Safety should have steped in, and more important job loses, AGAIN. Our railways are being killed off.