Birkdale Signal Box
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Birkdale Signal Box by Gerald England as part of the Geograph project.
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Birkdale Signal Box
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 15 May 2022
The Grade II listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1412052?section=official-list-entry Birkdale Signal Box is an unmodernised signal box that still retains its original windows, lever frame and other rarely surviving features such as the external boardwalk. As such it is a good, rare surviving example of the hipped roof style of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway signal boxes. Birkdale Railway Station was opened as part of the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway in 1848. In 1904 the line was absorbed into the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway which replaced the 1870s signal box with one of its own design in 1905. It became disused in 1994, when control was transferred to Sandhills. The building on the right was a kitchen and bathroom showroom for many years but is now a coffee shop.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.634328
Longitude
-3.014275