Former Falsgrave Signal Gantry

Railway signal gantry, by McKenzie and Holland for the North Eastern Railway, 1911, sited at Falsgrave signal box, Scarborough 1934-2010.

Riveted, steel lattice girder construction. The gantry uprights are slightly tapering box frames, the linking bridge supporting simple timber boarding and tubular steel handrails. The gantry carries three dolls (upright posts carrying semaphore signals) above but offset to the left of the lines to which they relate. These are of British Rail pattern, being square section with short, oversailing pyramidal caps. In 2015 the centre doll carried three signal arms, the other two with two each. All are upper quadrant (inclining upwards to show clear) stop signals (square ended, red with a vertical white stripe, white with black stripe to the reverse), the lower signals being smaller indicating that they relate to a change of track requiring a lower speed. As signals on a working line, their arrangement directly relates to the current associated trackwork.