Huntly signal box and home signals
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Huntly signal box and home signals by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
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Huntly signal box and home signals
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 20 May 2022
The station area signalling is almost entirely still mechanical. See also https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7195317 For a limited installation, there is a good deal of interest, with the bracketed signal post, shunting dolly (signal), twin speed restriction signs and a milepost outside the box. The box is not listed but does have an entry in the Aberdeenshire Historical Environment Record, which dates it to the late 19th century. This refers to it as a 'gate box', i.e. not controlling the passage of trains between sections, being subordinate to a full section box at the station, but the latter has since disappeared, and the box has full signal box status again.
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Image Location
Latitude
57.440695
Longitude
-2.781774