Keighley Junction Signal Box Approximately 10 Metres To North-West Of Bridge Over Railway

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KEIGHLEY, BRADFORD ROAD (north-west side, off), Keighley Junction Signal Box approx. 10 metres to north-west of bridge over railway

(Formerly listed as: BRADFORD ROAD (west side, off) Keighley Junction Signal Box approx 110 metres to north of bridge over railway)

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Signal box. 1884 for Midland Railway Company (Kaye). Timber Welsh slate roof. Single cell, two storeys, two x one bays. Vertical-boarded ground floor, vertical- boarded and glazed first floor, the window frames having angled top corners. Large- scantling angle posts; the narrow intermediate posts on the 1st floor are chamfered. Eaves board. Hipped oversailing roof with two wooden finials, one with top missing. North-west end has board door to ground floor and wooden steps up to first floor doorway which is flanked by two 4-pane windows to left and one to right. Right return: one 4-pane window to 1st floor left and a small inserted window to right. Left return (onto main line): 1st floor is all glazed, having two pairs of large sliding sashes with glazing bars, below then is set board lettered Keighley Station Junction. Rear: masked on ground floor by added out- shut. On 1st floor a wide side-sliding sash with glazing bars. INTERIOR: ground floor room houses mechanical relays operated from upper room connected levers. tipper room has full range of signal levers on one side above these is a bracketed shelf with block instruments and bells (including one old bell). Old wooden bench-locker; originally heated by a coal grate then by a Romesse stove (flue hole blocked up). The signal box is of the Midland Type 2a design, one of the most widespread of all signal box types; Kaye states that it will shortly become the oldest surviving Midland box. Dr Kaye, pers comm, and see book on signal boxes, forthcoming.

Listing NGR: SE0651841335