Description

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KEIGHLEY,
BRADFORD ROAD (north-west side, off),
Keighley Junction Signal Box approx. 10 metres to north-west of bridge over railway

(Formerly listed as: BRADFORD ROAD (west side, off) Keighley Junction Signal Box approx 110 metres to north of bridge over railway)

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Signal box. 1884 for Midland Railway Company (Kaye). Timber Welsh slate roof.
Single cell, two storeys, two x one bays. Vertical-boarded ground floor, vertical-
boarded and glazed first floor, the window frames having angled top corners. Large-
scantling angle posts; the narrow intermediate posts on the 1st floor are
chamfered. Eaves board. Hipped oversailing roof with two wooden finials, one
with top missing. North-west end has board door to ground floor and wooden steps
up to first floor doorway which is flanked by two 4-pane windows to left and one
to right. Right return: one 4-pane window to 1st floor left and a small inserted
window to right. Left return (onto main line): 1st floor is all glazed, having
two pairs of large sliding sashes with glazing bars, below then is set board
lettered Keighley Station Junction. Rear: masked on ground floor by added out-
shut. On 1st floor a wide side-sliding sash with glazing bars. INTERIOR: ground
floor room houses mechanical relays operated from upper room connected levers.
tipper room has full range of signal levers on one side above these is a bracketed
shelf with block instruments and bells (including one old bell). Old wooden
bench-locker; originally heated by a coal grate then by a Romesse stove (flue
hole blocked up). The signal box is of the Midland Type 2a design, one of the
most widespread of all signal box types; Kaye states that it will shortly become
the oldest surviving Midland box. Dr Kaye, pers comm, and see book on signal
boxes, forthcoming.

Listing NGR: SE0651841335

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26427439

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