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Some Items in Industrial Railway Record

Industrial Railway Record is the Journal of the Industrial Railway Society. Follow this link to visit their web site.

Issue Items
2007 March

Issue 188		 Lynemouth Signal Box by Colin Mountford: The number of boxes not owned or operated by Network Rail is now very few. Lynemouth in Northumberland is one such that was acquired from Westinghouse at cost price, being taken over by the NCB in August 1956. Subsequent events including a serious underground fire at Lynemouth Colliery in 1966 and it’s merger with Ellington in 1983, all affected the requirements and layout. The building of a large aluminium smelter west of the former colliery again changed the layout with a new connection between Woodhorn and Lynemouth together with an ‘Alcan Branch Jn’ Box. When this was destroyed in an arson attack in 1984, the work passed to Lynemouth and when Ellington closed in 1994, ‘Alcan’ took over the signalling and the box. Fascinating reading backed up by 12 pictures of the system and box and some excellent maps and plans.