Fallen Guardians #9: Crabley Creek, East Riding of Yorkshire

            20303 'Max Joule 1958-1999' and 20305 'Gresty Bridge' approach Crabley Creek while working 3S14, the 1241 Sheffield to Hull railhead treatment train.

One of the largest resignalling schemes (in terms of route miles) in recent years was that from Ferriby to Gilberdyke resignalling in the East Riding.   Completing in November 2018, the scheme saw the closure of 8 signal boxes or gate boxes which had previously worked absolute block along the north coast of the Humber towards Hull.   

In this view, the distant semaphore for the next box to the east, Cave crossing is visible, but the RHTT is about to pass under the home signal for Crabley Creek.

Crabley Creek is something of an oddity: while the semaphores have been removed the signal box remains but has been downgraded to a gate box, the sole remaining box on the section.

The east of England has benefited particularly from resignalling in recent years.    The higher profile scheme south of the Humber from Grimsby, through Barnetby towards Scunthorpe, the 'joint line' from Doncaster to Peterborough and Lincoln itself have all seen semaphore signalling eradicated.   

Lincolnshire,  a county that was almost 100% semaphore signalled until 2008 when Lincoln was resignalled, has lost all semaphore signalling with the exception of the Sleaford to Skegness route.

Taken on: November 23, 2017

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