Hutton Cranswick signal box

[g.89]

When I first came to live in Cranswick there was a signal box at the crossing gates. This box was removed some time in the 80s I think and I didn't have the foresight to photograph it before and during its removal. I have a copy of Herbert Johnson's 'Tale of Two Villages ' and there are two photos of the box in it taken C1905. The photos clearly show that the box was then a single storey building but it definitely was a two storey building when I saw it from 1978. Does anyone know when it was redeveloped?

If you have any photos and are agreeable to them being scanned I would be most grateful.

Many thanks, Alan

[chalkie]

HI Allan I am on this hoping to get hold of a construction drawing of this box it was a S4 box and was still in situ in 1988, A friend had the signalling diagram from cranswick box but sold it not knowing what he had, I have contacted the signalling record society and Mick Nicholson has offered help too, and still looking for all the point rodding wire runs for the lead off

[chalkie]

In the first two photos is a wooden NER box during demolition from a constuction point of view it is quite interesting
(photo by Mike Elliot)

And the second you can see two signal boxes a earlyer one the single story in the background and a replacement this was at burton agness the older box is still there but the newer box has been demolished.

[chalkie]

here is a basic drawing of a wooden NER signal box ( drawing Mick Nickolson)

[chalkie]

And another photo of the box at Hutton Cranswick with the first photo showing Burton Agness boxes earlyer on right and later on left