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Gristhorpe Signal Box
Gristhorpe Signal Box Opened In around 1847 with the opening of the line between Seamer and Bridlington, The LNER Took over from the pre-grouping companies in 1923.
The Box contains an 18-lever McKenzie & Holland type 16 lever frame, The box lost its block instruments when the line between Filey and Seamer was singled in 1983, the station went a little earlier on the 16 February 1959 when this happened all crossings between Seamer & Filey were planned to be converted to automatic ones, however only Muston was converted, Cayton & Lebberston were converted to Portacabin Key Lock boxes and Gristhorpe was retained due to the local station owner refusing to sell the land for AHB Barriers aswell as to control the awkward level crossing here.
When the line was modernised in 2000, the boxes at Filey, Hunmanby and Bempton were abolished with Seamer Panel (SR)(Ex-Seamer East) taking control of the line between Seamer and Hunmanby (with the line re-doubling at Filey) where Bridlington takes control for the final single line section from Hunmanby to Bridlington via Bempton.
The Box uses axle counters to detect when a train is approaching, and when the train passes onto the single line at either Filey or Seamer west junction
The box has no control over the trains it can only stop them should it be necessary.
Although no closure date for Gristhorpe exists there are Rumors of an expansion, with Up Home G6 being moved to protect Lebberston as well as Gristhorpe and subsequently the Up signals will be converted to colour lights, with the potential of Down Home (the distant is already a colour light despite the diagram showing otherwise) also switching to a colour light. But only time will tell.
Gristhorpe Signal Box
Gristhorpe Signal Box Opened In around 1847 with the opening of the line between Seamer and Bridlington, The LNER Took over from the pre-grouping companies in 1923.
The Box contains an 18-lever McKenzie & Holland type 16 lever frame, The box lost its block instruments when the line between Filey and Seamer was singled in 1983, the station went a little earlier on the 16 February 1959 when this happened all crossings between Seamer & Filey were planned to be converted to automatic ones, however only Muston was converted, Cayton & Lebberston were converted to Portacabin Key Lock boxes and Gristhorpe was retained due to the local station owner refusing to sell the land for AHB Barriers aswell as to control the awkward level crossing here.
When the line was modernised in 2000, the boxes at Filey, Hunmanby and Bempton were abolished with Seamer Panel (SR)(Ex-Seamer East) taking control of the line between Seamer and Hunmanby (with the line re-doubling at Filey) where Bridlington takes control for the final single line section from Hunmanby to Bridlington via Bempton.
The Box uses axle counters to detect when a train is approaching, and when the train passes onto the single line at either Filey or Seamer west junction
The box has no control over the trains it can only stop them should it be necessary.
Although no closure date for Gristhorpe exists there are Rumors of an expansion, with Up Home G6 being moved to protect Lebberston as well as Gristhorpe and subsequently the Up signals will be converted to colour lights, with the potential of Down Home (the distant is already a colour light despite the diagram showing otherwise) also switching to a colour light. But only time will tell.