Carnforth: the former Selside signal box

Railway signal box, 1907, by and for the Midland Railway. Relocated to Carnforth in 1976.

MATERIALS: timber with a Welsh slate roof.

EXTERIOR: signal box that is square in plan and of two storeys with a shallow-pitched, pyramidal roof with finial. The first floor operating room has continuous glazing to three sides except the east, rear, the windows being divided into a row of four lights to each side, each of these lights being subdivided into six panes with glazing bars. The part glazed doorway is in the north end, formerly reached by an external flight of timber steps of which only the top landing remains. The signal box retains its external walkway with hand rail designed to facilitate window cleaning. The ground floor has a single window to the front (west) and a door to the north. Areas of plain walling are finished with horizontal weather-boarding, with vertical boarding above and below the windows.

INTERIOR: this has not been modernised and retains its lever frame and associated equipment.