The new NX panel in place. BOTH: NETWORK RAIL
The surviving 65-lever frame. On the right of the photo is the separate room which was created after the original number of levers was reduced.
A SIGNALLING upgrade at Bridlington on the Yorkshire Coast line has seen its semaphore signals replaced with colour lights controlled by a new NX (entry exit) panel.
Just days before the work took place, a Grade II historic building designation was obtained on October 20, as the ’box is the only surviving large 10-bay North Eastern Railway Type S1a signalbox. As a result, the 65-lever frame in the box – which dates from 1893 – remains in place but disconnected. Because the operating floor had been partitioned many years ago, the new panel has been installed in a room in the unused section at the south west end of the ’box.