Annat Signal Box

Location type

Sidings

Name and dates

Annat Signal Box (1964-2013)

Opened on the Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway).

Description

This signal box opened in 1964, replacing that at Camus-na-ha Sidings to the west. The box controlled Annat West and Annat East level crossings and the entry into Scottish Pulp and Paper Mills which had led to its opening. It was located on the south side of the line at Annat East Level Crossing.

The box was originally flat roofed and was later fitted with a peaked roof. It seems this box was relocated from Kinglassie Colliery.

The siding into the mill ran started just west of the west level crossing and ran west, then south and finally east to serve the southern part of the site where there was a series of sidings. There was a ground frame at the point of junction.

The box became a gate box in 1987.

The box closed in 2013, largely redundant after the closure of the mill in 2005 with the volume of traffic (tripped irregular traffic) greatly reduced the box only controlled level crossing for the small number of passenger trains.

Tags

Signal box

Aliases

Annat Signalbox



Chronology Dates

  /  /1964Westfield to Kinglassie Line (North British Railway)
Lochore and Redford Extension (North British Railway)
Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway)
Unused signal box at Kinglassie Colliery moved to the Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway) to become Annat Signal Box, for the Scottish Pulp and Paper Mills (opened in 1966).
21/06/1964Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway)
Annat Signal Box opened, Camus-na-ha Signal Box closed.
06/12/1987West Highland Railway
Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway)
RETB, based at the signalling centre at Banavie, comes into operation. Takes over Glenfinnan, Arisaig. Annat Signal Box reduced to gate box.
  /  /2013Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway)
Annat Signal Box closed.

Books


A Mallaig Boyhood (Flashbacks)
All Stations to Mallaig!: West Highland Line Since Nationalisation
Captains and Commanders: Memoirs of a Scottish West Coast Fisherman

Chapels of the Rough Bounds

Highland Steam: A Scrapbook of Images from the 'Kyle, Mallaig and Highland Lines

History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands: West Highland Railway v. 1

History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands: West Highland Railway v. 1

Iron Road to the Isles: A Travellers and Tourist Guide to the West Highland Lines

Iron Roads to the Isles: A Travellers and Tourists Souvenir Guide to the West Highland Lines

Landranger (40) Mallaig & Glenfinnan, Loch Shiel (OS Landranger Map)

Mallaig Line: An Illustrated History and Guide

Old Mallaig, Morar and Arisaig

On West Highland Lines

Railway World Special: Fort William and Mallaig

Railway World Special: West Highland Lines

Rannan Rathad Iarainn nan Eilean =: The West Highland Line
Steam to Mallaig
The Mallaig Railway
The Mallaig Railway: The West Highland Extension 1897-1901 (RCAHMS Broadsheet)
The Story of the West Highland

The Story of the West Highland: The 1940s LNER Guide to the Line

The West Highland Mallaig Extension in B.R.Days

The West Highland Railway

The West Highland Railway (Railways of the Scottish Highlands)

The West Highland Railway 120 Years

Walks from the West Highland Railway (Cicerone Guide)

West Highland Extension: Great Railway Journeys Through Time

West Highland Railway
West Highland Railway (History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands v. 1): West Highland Railway v. 1