Carstairs No 1 Signal Box

Location type


Names and dates

Carstairs West Signal Box (-1902)
Carstairs No 1 Signal Box (1902-1972)

Opened on the Caledonian Railway.

Description

This signal box was west of Carstairs station, controlling sidings on either side of the line west to Glasgow. The box was on the north side of the line with a tramway to a sand pit running behind it to the north.

Single ended sidings on the north side of the line ran west from the box.

Further sidings run east on the south side of the line. These became the engineers' sidings just west of the station (not longer in use).

The box was renamed around 1902 during the reconstruction of Carstairs station. Boxes around the station were numbered rather than continue to be named for their geographical location, which were not always particularly helpful.

In preparation for electrification the box closed in 1972 when taken over by a short lived panel box before control passed to the Motherwell Signalling Centre.

Tags

Signal box
01/07/2019

Books


An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways

Bradshaw's Guides Scotlands Railways West Coast - Carlisle to Inverness: 5

Caledonian Dunalastairs and Associated Classes (Locomotive Monograph)

Caledonian in LMS Days (Railways in Retrospect)

Caledonian Railway

Caledonian Railway Carriages

Caledonian Railway Livery: The True Line Elegance and Style

Caledonian Railway Wagons & Non-Passenger Coaching Stock

Caledonian Routes 3: Stirling to Crianlarich - DVD - Oakwood Press

Caley to the Coast: Rothesay by Wemyss Bay (Oakwood Library of Railway History)

Callander & Oban Railway Through Time

Callander and Oban Railway (Library of Railway History)

Carlisle To Beattock: including the Dumfries Branch (Scottish Main Lines)

Carlisle to Hawick: The Waverley Route (Scml)

Signalling the Caledonian Railway

The Caledonian Railway 'jumbos' the 18in. X 26in. 0-6-0s

The Caledonian, Scotland's Imperial Railway: A History

The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos)

Through Scotland with the Caledonian Railway

Vanished Railways of West Lothian