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Latitude: 54.8774 / 54°52'38"N
Longitude: -4.8878 / 4°53'16"W
OS Eastings: 214825
OS Northings: 557445
OS Grid: NX148574
Mapcode National: GBR GH9T.HVM
Mapcode Global: WH2SG.WNMS
Plus Code: 9C6QV4G6+XV
Entry Name: Dunragit Signal Box
Listing Name: Dunragit, Signal Box
Listing Date: 3 August 1993
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 350573
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16766
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200350573
Location: Old Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Parish: Old Luce
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Signal box
1927, London Midland and Scottish Railway Company signal box. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan with piended roof and projecting eaves. Brick base with 3 segmental-arched openings and locking room door to W. Timber forestair and operating room door to E; upper stage fully glazed to E, N and W with glazed bay advanced at centre to N; narrow iron walkway to E, N and W (interrupted by advanced bay) supported on decorative cast-iron brackets and with iron handrail.
Glazing at upper stage incroporates sliding windows; 9-pane fixed glazing to lower stage. Grey-green slates to roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
Signal boxes are a distinctive and increasingly rare building type that make a significant contribution to Scotland's diverse industrial heritage. Of more than 2000 signal boxes built across Scotland by 1948, around 150 currently survive (2013) with all pre-1948 mechanical boxes still in operation on the public network due to become obsolete by 2021.
Built in 1927 by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, the signal box at Dunragit is a fine and largely intact example of this once widespread type in Scotland. LMS built boxes to Midland Railway designs in England until around 1929. The Type 12 box, with its characteristic projecting centre bay, was less common than the companies standard Type 11, with very few examples surviving (2013). The distinctive piended roof, projecting bay, cast-iron frame to upper level walkway, and locking room windows all add to its interest as a fine inter-war example of its building type. Operational as of 2013, the building retains its 32 lever locking frame.
Dunragit Station was opened in 1861 and closed in 1965. The signal box remained in use due to it controlling a level crossing over the B7084.
Change of category from C to B and list description updated as part of Scottish Signal Box Review (2012-13).
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