Nairn Railway Station, West and East Signal Boxes North (down) Platform., Nairn
Description: Nairn Railway Station, West and East Signal Boxes North (down) Platform.
Category: B
Date Listed: 12 December 1986
Historic Scotland Building ID: 38455
OS Grid Coordinates: 288283, 856085
Latitude/Longitude: 57.5810, -3.8700
Location: George Street, Nairn, Highland IV12 4QT
Locality: Nairn
County: Highland
Country: Scotland
Postcode: IV12 4QT
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Listing Text
West signal box; probably 1885. White painted weather-boarded rectangular signal box with contrasting margins set on brick
base; doorway in small projecting porch under valanced lintel
fronted by narrow balcony and approached by short wooden
forestair. Continuous fenestration with 4-pane glazing to S
frontage, returning along E and W gables. End brick stack;
black felted roof with projecting eaves. East signal box; as
above but standing slightly lower and without balcony or
forestair. No stack.
References:
John Hume, INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND ii (1977),
p.239-40.
Notes:
One signalman operates both boxes, bicycling between them
along the down platform. Inverness and Nairn Railway opened
1855; railway station re-built by Highland Railway in 1885.
Source: Historic Scotland
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