PROGRESS ON CORFE CASTLE'S 'VICTORIAN' SIGNAL BOX -
NEW ROOF TILING IS FINISHED - 1st November 2009

News Item and Photo Report from Andrew P.M. Wright - dated 1st November 2009
Official photographer & press officer, Swanage Railway.
Photographs are copyright Andrew P.M. Wright.
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Swanage Railway volunteers Tony North (left) and Barry Goodwin put the finishing touches to the new roof of Corfe Castle station's 'Victorian' signal box high above Corfe Castle station on Sunday 1st November 2009.

Dedicated Swanage Railway volunteers rebuilding Corfe Castle station's Victorian signal box - which was demolished back in the 1950s - have now completed the tiling of the roof of the new structure.

The impressive new rebuilt version of the old 1884-built signal box is the same height and depth as the original structure but it is a third wider along the face of the platform.

Behind bars: Swanage Railway volunteers (left to right) Pete Frost, Tony North, Barry Goodwin and Pete Ball at Corfe Castle station's 'Victorian' signal box on Sunday 1st November 2009.

And unlike the original signal box - which was joined to the neighbouring wooden waiting shelter - there will be a small access gap between the waiting shelter and the new signal box.

Swanage Railway volunteers John Drew (left) and Roger Stewart-Hindley fit the chimney ventilator to the new roof of Corfe Castle station's 'Victorian' signal box high above Corfe Castle station on Sunday 1st November 2009.

Corfe Castle station's 'Victorian' signal box takes shape on the down platform at Corfe Castle station on Sunday 1st November 2009.

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