View from E showing ENE and SSE fronts of N signal box
SC 779003
Description View from E showing ENE and SSE fronts of N signal box
Date 26/3/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 779003
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Nairn Station, Cawdor Road, Nairn, Highland This shows the station from the east, seen from a diesel multiple-unit train from Elgin to Inverness, illustrating the enormous length of the east-bound platform. There is a signal box at each end, and the signalman is given a bicycle to take the single-line token from one to the other. Though the line from Inverness to Aberdeen was resignalled with radio signalling in the 1980s, these boxes survived in use until well into the 1990s. As they are listed they have survived the elimination of most of the boxes on this route. The first station on this site was opened in 1855 by the Inverness & Nairn Railway. It was rebuilt in 1885 on a larger scale by The Highland Railway at a time when the town was developing as a golfing resort. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/19/9
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