Garsdale Signal Box

Railway signal box, 1910 by and for the Midland Railway.

MATERIALS: timber with a Welsh slate roof.

EXTERIOR: signal box of three bays and two storeys with a shallow-pitched hipped roof, topped with turned-timber spike-finials. The first floor operating room has continuous glazing to the south east (facing the tracks) and to the two ends, the rear being blind. The doorway is in the south west gable end, reached by an external flight of timber steps which rises from the station platform. These steps also give access to a small, gabled-roofed modern extension to the operating room containing a staff toilet. The signal box has modern replacement windows which replicate the glazing pattern of the originals.

INTERIOR: has been refurbished with a modern suspended ceiling. However it retains a Midland Railways lever frame of 33 levers (which has the interlocking mechanisms within the operating room rather than in the room below). This locking frame is sited along the rear wall of the box, rather than the front wall. This may be its original position (as the Midland Railway started building boxes with rear frames from 1908), but might be the result of refurbishment.