Towneley Signal Box

This is a small signal box on the line from Preston to York, just southeast of Burnley. It continued in use to around 2013 - one of the last in use in East Lancashire - as it guarded the level crossing where Hufling Lane crosses the railway.

The signal box is south of the road, and east of the track. Until 1952 there was a station, on the north side of the road, and there are several useful photos on the Disused station web site. According to that site:

The signal box was initially  on the up platform, adjacent to the level crossing, but it was replaced in 1878  with a box south-east of the crossing, again on the up side of the tracks. The  new box was a Saxby & Farmer Type 9, originally containing a 26-lever S&F frame, but fitted with a new 24-level LYR frame at a later date. 

My model is how it was in around 1980, with the lower windows bricked up (which had happened by 1960 I think), but before the lower half of the upper windows were boarded up and the toilet added at the top of the steps.



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