Re: Falsgrave / Scarborough

On 24 Jul, 22:17, "Kev Lawrence" <kevan.lawre...@btinternet.com>
wrote:
> "Peter Fox" <unet0...@PeterFox.ukfsn.org> wrote in message
>
> news:g6a9bb$dqn$1@localhost.localdomain...
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> > Just looking at a pretty pic at:
> > <http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id$3806&nseq)>
> > and I see "Falsgrave" where I naively expected to see
"Scarborough".
>
> > A few moments of timewasting later brings me to the excellent guide:
>
> >
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/image_galleries/falsgrave...>
>
> > And finally, what I came here to ask:  Where is/was Scarborough signal
> > box?
>
> OK, here goes, I write this having lived inn Scarbro' for 2 years, having
> moved from Letchworth
>
> Falsgrave is a district of Scarborough, and, as you can see from the
> pictures, was where the old whitby line diverged away from the scarborough
> line from york, more or less at the end of Scarborough station.
>
> However, platform 1 - by the main road had been extended quite a long way
> (think of Paddington Platform 1) to reach to the signal box. (Thus it is
> Scarborough signal box from your point of view).
>
> At Falgrave the line curves anticlockwise about 60 degree anticlockwise (as
> seen from the Scarbro station end viewpoint) and the line then follows the
> A64.
>
> This makes for interesting starts from the station for steam trains, being
> initially uphill and a curve left, the a curve right.  Ive seen an A4 stall
> horribly last year on the Spa Express.
>
> For those interested the Scarborough Spa Express runs generally during
> school holidays (the holiday time high season), and regretfully of late
> seems lightly loaded.
>
> Best regards
>
> Kev
>
> PS JS occupies the old goods yard

In the eighties (and up until it's abolition) I seem to remember it
was located right at the end of what are now platforms 4 & 5 (just
under the bridge that can be seen in picture #2 in the BBC feature),
although as Bruce rightly mentioned there were several others in the
area in bygone days.

GM
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