Swinging the gates, Fiskerton Junction

Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 14 Sep 2012

The gates are still mechanically operated from the signal box, one of fewer than a couple of dozen such sites still remaining on the British rail network. The gates are operated by rodding worked from a wheel in the box. The signal box was not installed until well into the 20th century when a new chord line was built in 1929 to connect the Southwell branch in the Nottingham direction for direct passage of coal traffic. The line closed in the 1970s, but the box retained the name Fiskerton Junction presumably because of the presence of Fiskerton box close by. The nearest village is in fact Morton. Although there is no station, Fiskerton Junction retains its status as a signalling block post. Despite there being two stations in the block to the east, the next block box at Staythorpe sidings is also not at a station.

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