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sprinter approaching the Settle Junction distant signal near Long Preston.
View taken looking south towards the village.
4/5/00
6.45 pm
OS Grid Reference SD 823589 This signal is located approximately 1 mile to the South of Settle Junction and replaced a unique two head two-aspect distant colour light signal when the signalling was upgraded.
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W S General Motors locomotive 66159
approaching Long Preston from the North with an evening MGR train.
4/05/00 7.30 pm OS grid reference SD823589 (This photograph was taken
looking North towards Settle Junction from the bridge where the previous
photograph was taken).
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Settle to Carlisle line begins at Settle Junction, which is still the site
of a fine Midland Railway Signal box. The junction is 234 miles from St.
Pancras Station in London. Settle Junction is where the "Little North Western
Railway" line to Lancaster and Morecambe diverges. The "Little North-Western
Railway", was opened in June 1850 and re-dates the opening of the Settle-Carlisle
Railway by over 25 years.
There was once a station located here at the junction, the original Settle Station, complete with goods facilities, but it was short-lived and had closed by November 1877. The junction is still manually signalled although in recent years the distant semaphore signals have been replaced by 2 aspect colour lights. From Settle Junction to the 1,151 ft. point, just inside the Blea Moor Tunnel, the line climbs 700 feet in the first 12 miles. This climb is the notorious "Long Drag". |
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Settle
Junction Signal Box 4/5/00
OS grid reference SD 813619This is a standard 10ft + 10ft Midland Railway design of signal box which was opened on the 14th of September 1913. It replaced a box of 1892 vintage which in turn had replaced an 1874 structure. In 1960 the 25 lever Midland Tappet lever frame was replaced by a standard 1943 pattern frame of 31 levers. |
| Until 1922 there also existed a second signal box at Settle Junction, the south box. This was built in 1874 and was renewed in 1894. A Midland Railway Way and Works Committee Minute No.13865 records the authorisation for the removal of the south box. The crossover connection to the Up Siding had been removed in 1913. The Up Siding itself was removed in 1968 leaving only two sidings connected to the down main line. | |
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Settle
Junction (looking South)
4/5/00 EW&S Class 66 hauling Gypsum empties travels South from Kirkby Thore works, returning to Drax Flue gas desulphurisation plant. OS grid reference SD 813609 The junction with the Carnforth line was remodelled into the present ladder configuration after the derailment of the St. Blazey - Carlisle freight which took place on the 1st May 1979. |
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