Whilst travelling to Carlisle yesterday I saw an odd siding a couple.of miles to the east of Haltwhistle (I think).
It diverged from the Carlisle bound track, and had a number of signal posts labelled "A" "B" etc. Mounted on the top of those posts are round heads that looked to hold about 10 individual bulbs.
The siding then rejoined the track.
It has obviously been out of use for a very long time, on fact part of it is buried under some spoil. But I couldn't see any redundant industry and looking on google maps I can't see a quarry or anything of that nature, just a lane leading to it.
I'm intrigued. Does anyone know what traffic used this loop and what the purpose/operation of the weird signals was?
It diverged from the Carlisle bound track, and had a number of signal posts labelled "A" "B" etc. Mounted on the top of those posts are round heads that looked to hold about 10 individual bulbs.
The siding then rejoined the track.
It has obviously been out of use for a very long time, on fact part of it is buried under some spoil. But I couldn't see any redundant industry and looking on google maps I can't see a quarry or anything of that nature, just a lane leading to it.
I'm intrigued. Does anyone know what traffic used this loop and what the purpose/operation of the weird signals was?