Big lift signals new line for old railway box
AN operation to give an historic signal box a future has come to fruition after five years of work and with the promise of £35,000-plus investment.
The timber box, thought to date back to around 1895, was lifted by crane from its home in North Wootton onto a lorry and transported to its new home with Wensleydale Railway Association, 160 miles away in Leeming Bar, North Yorkshire.
Woottons Scouts and Guides bought the signal box and the surrounding site when it set up its headquarters on the old Lynn to Hunstanton railway line, in Station Road, in 1975.
The box went out of use five years ago when it became rundown and too expensive to insure and ever since group scout leader David Smith has been trying to set up a move to a good home.
He said: “It would have been easy to either give it away as a shed or knock it down and burn it but it just wouldn’t have been the right thing to do.
“It was nice to see it go but it was on two conditions: one that it didn’t cost us any money, and two that we get an invitation to see it when it is rebuilt.”
Mr Smith said he understood the move cost 5,000 and a further 30,000 plus is to be spent putting the box back to its former glory.
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