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Re: Falsgrave / Scarborough

"Peter Fox" <unet0608@PeterFox.ukfsn.org> wrote in message
news:g6a9bb$dqn$1@localhost.localdomain...
> 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_signal_box_gal
lery.shtml?1>
>
> 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

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