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Great Britain Postland Signal Box - 2016 / 20

BikinGlynn

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In 1879 the Great Northern and Great Eastern railways presented Parliamentary proposals to construct a line from Spalding to Lincoln, completing a 123-mile freight route between Cambridge and Doncaster. Their intention was to tap into the profitable market for coal movements into East Anglia from Yorkshire.

Overseen by a joint committee, the route brought together a number of existing lines, amongst them the GN's Spalding-March (Whitemoor Junction) connection which had opened on 1st April 1867. This served a number of isolated communities including Crowland where a station was established. It was renamed Postland in 1871.

The now occupied station looks like this

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On the south side of the station was a level crossing, adjacent to which is a Great Northern Type 1 signal box dating from 1882. This evocative railway outpost still contains its original 35-lever frame. There were rumours of the box being demolished to make way for a road widening scheme but, as yet, it has evaded the bulldozers.

I visited this many years back (& had a run in with a farmer here) then stopped by again early this year. Unfortunately the higher level is inaccessible to all but the foolhardy, but I did manage to see the underworkings. Most pics were before decent camera time again so apologies for the quality.

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Once underneath you are greeted by lots of industrial goodness.

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Levers remaining on the higher level

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Adjacent to this lays the old station masters house.

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A few hundred metres behind this remains an engine shed, now being used by local farmers

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Not far down the road is Gedney station. work appears to of started here since @HughieD report here, but nothing seems to of changed in 4 yrs between my visits.
Unfortunately it looks like all they have achieved is to strip this of any interesting features

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Thats all from here, thanks for looking.

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