Bee Box
The Cumbrian coast route south of Whitehaven is a fine outpost of traditional railway operation with signal boxes, semaphores and manually operated crossing gates.
Lifting barriers are a concession to modernity at St Bees station. The 1891 Furness Railway built signal box controlled one of a few crossing loops on the single-line section between Sellafield and Whitehaven. The signalman still has to provide a token to the driver of the passing trains.
156443 and 153352 head into the station loop with a Barrow in Furness bound working on Saturday the 16th September 2017.
Bee Box
The Cumbrian coast route south of Whitehaven is a fine outpost of traditional railway operation with signal boxes, semaphores and manually operated crossing gates.
Lifting barriers are a concession to modernity at St Bees station. The 1891 Furness Railway built signal box controlled one of a few crossing loops on the single-line section between Sellafield and Whitehaven. The signalman still has to provide a token to the driver of the passing trains.
156443 and 153352 head into the station loop with a Barrow in Furness bound working on Saturday the 16th September 2017.