Brigg signal box, alongside the level crossing on the A1084, could be coming to the end of the line - according to information relayed to Brigg Town Council's Planning and Environment Committee when it met in the Angel Suite Lounge on Wednesday night.
Coun Penny Smith said an article in a railway magazine suggested Brigg signal box would close in 2015, with things then "controlled from York."
Coun Smith wondered whether, in due course, the signal box might be "looked at" for possible inclusion in the new category of Locally Listed Heritage buildings.
On that front, a meeting has now been held with North Lincolnshire Council over the creation of a heritage list. And Town Clerk Jeanette Woollard suggested the unitary authority was looking towards Brigg being a pilot for this scheme.
FOOTNOTE: Network Rail, which owns and operates the signalbox, has yet to comment on the railway magazine's report suggesting Brigg signal box could be facing closure. We will keep you posted if an update is forthcoming.
Another source indicates that seven of the local signal boxes are due to close in 2015 - Brigg is planned (from 2011 info) to close in 2016.
ReplyDeleteSome of the local signal boxes, ie Appleby, are already listed buildings - Brigg box is not.
Just for info, Nige - is the Monument a listed structure!
Two reasons I ask....one, if not it should be....and, secondly, Brigg TC are debating whether there should be a policy/guidelines re the possible procedural criteria for adding names to the war memorial
- should the need ever arise. If the Monument is listed, then it would be the ultimate responsibility of NLC's Listed Building section to determine - give permission, if and how any additional names are added.
There's an interesting comment in The Glanforder - that Network Rail are already open to ideas for the disposal/sale of signal boxes.
ReplyDeleteThis poses the question of whether Brigg signal box will be eventually demolished, or sold.....unlike, for example, the Appleby and Elsham boxes which are already listed.
Traditional signal boxes are already on the cusp of being centres of future heritage.....in the next generation, they will become as quaint as windmills...
Postponed until February 2019 now
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