Garsdale Signal Box - List Entry
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Description
...Garsdale Signal Box is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Historical: the signal box, which is still in its original location, was the source of the signalling error which caused the 1910 Hawes Junction Disaster, the accident which prompted the widespread adoption of track circuits to improve rail safety. * Fittings: for the retention of a Midland Railway lever frame with its interlocking mechanisms housed on the floor of the operating room......signal box of three bays and two storeys with a shallow-pitched hipped roof, topped with turned-timber spike-finials. The first floor operating room has continuous glazing to the south east (facing the tracks) and to the two ends, the rear being blind. The doorway is in the south west gable end, reached by an external flight of timber steps which rises from the station platform. These steps also give access to a small, gabled-roofed modern extension to the operating room containing a staff toilet.... -
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Link: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1412055
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