Polton No 2 Signal Box

Location type


Name and dates

Polton No 2 Signal Box

Opened on the Peebles Railway.

Description

This signal box was south of Bonnyrigg station. It controlled the short line to Polton Colliery No 2 and Phillip's Siding.

The signal box was on the north side of Bonnyrigg Gatehouse level crossing, on the north/west side of the line. The gatehouse was directly opposite on the other side of the road.

Both were approached from the north.

Phillips Siding was on the north/west side of the line, just north of the box. There was a trailing crossover on the double track line, opposite the box.

A little further north/east was the Polton Colliery No 2 mineral line which ran south. It led off from a single lead junction at the south end of Bonnyrigg station. The single track mineral line had an exchange yard of three looped sidings next to the junction.

Further south was a reversing spur for Polton Colliery No 1. Further south still was another reversing spur for Dalhousie Colliery. Both were on the north/west side of the line.

The box was reduced to a gate box in 1929.

The box closed in 1965. The line closed in 1967.

Today a road still crosses the former trackbed here, now a footpath.

Tags

Signal box junction
09/03/2021

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

Border Railway Portfolio

Borders Railway Rambles

Branches & Byways: Southwest Scotland and the Border Counties

Forgotten Railways: Scotland

Lost Railways of the Scottish Borders

Peebles Railways

Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong

The Railways of Peebles (Through Time)