Garsdale Signal Box is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 2013. Railway signal box. 1 related planning application.
Garsdale Signal Box
- WRENN ID
- rooted-cornice-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 August 2013
- Type
- Railway signal box
- Address
- Garsdale Signal Box, LA10 5PP
- OS grid reference
- SD 788 918
- Coordinates
- 54.32166, -2.32617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garsdale Signal Box is a railway signal box built in 1910 for the Midland Railway. It is constructed of timber and features a Welsh slate roof.
The exterior consists of three bays and two storeys, topped with a shallow-pitched hipped roof adorned with turned-timber spike-finials. The first floor operating room has continuous glazing on the southeast side, which faces the tracks, and on both ends, while the rear wall is blind. Access to the signal box is through a doorway located in the southwest gable end, reached by an external flight of timber steps that rise from the station platform. These steps also provide access to a small modern extension with a gabled roof that contains a staff toilet. The signal box has modern replacement windows that replicate the original glazing pattern.
Inside, the signal box has been refurbished with a modern suspended ceiling but retains a Midland Railways lever frame with 33 levers. This lever frame has its interlocking mechanisms located within the operating room rather than in a lower room. The locking frame is positioned along the rear wall of the box, which may be its original location, as the Midland Railway began constructing boxes with rear frames from 1908, although it could also be a result of refurbishment.
Local climate
Garsdale Signal Box sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 69 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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