Galashiels North Signal Box
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Name and dates
Galashiels North Signal Box (1849-1937)Opened on the Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway).
Description
This signal box was located at the north end of Galashiels [1st] station and was closed during the re-signalling of 1937 when it was replaced by a new box at the north end of the station.
The brick built box was located on the north side of the line, across the line from the east end of the present Galashiels station platform. It was topped with a finial.
The box originally controlled not only the north end of the station (and carriage sidings) but also the level crossing which crossed the line to the north west of the station platforms. This level crossing was replaced by a girder bridge which crossed over the station at 90 degrees directly north west of the station trainshed. That bridge was in turn replaced by a girder bridge on an oblique (which improved the road layout) also passing over the station and through the site of the former trainshed.
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Signal box| Nearby stations Galashiels Galashiels [1st] Abbotsford Ferry [2nd] Abbotsford Ferry [1st] Tweedbank Clovenfords Lindean Bowland Melrose Angling Club Cottage Newstead [Melrose] Selkirk Thornielee Earlston Stow | Galashiels Goods Paterson^s No 1 Siding Galashiels Shed Ladhope Tunnel Paterson^s No 2 Siding Comelybank Works Skin Works Siding Gala Mill Galabank Mill Comelybank Mill Bridge No 95 Kilnknowe Junction Netherdale Mill Wheatlands Mill Tourist/other Galashiels South Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
