Huntly signal box (detail) and milepost
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Huntly signal box (detail) and milepost by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
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Huntly signal box (detail) and milepost
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 20 May 2022
Close up of the point rodding and signal wires at a traditional mechanical signal box, by 2022 becoming increasingly rare. The milepost indicates a distance of 40 ½ miles from the start of the line at Aberdeen. Many railway companies indicated the quarter miles by dots or bars as being easier to spot from a moving train than numeric fractions.
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Image Location
Latitude
57.440695
Longitude
-2.781774