Spooner Row signalbox is saved for Mid-Norfolk
A GER signalbox from Spooner Row on the Norwich-Ely line is to find a new home on GER territory at the MidNorfolk Railway.
Made redundant when the route was resignalled, the GER Type 2 ’box was donated to the MNR by Network Rail nine years ago but has only recently been dismantled for the move, with the timber top half currently stored at Spooner Row and the locking room demolished last year.
The MNR is now appealing for £12,000 to cover the costs of transporting and rebuilding it at the line’s southern terminus of Wymondham Abbey, where work can then commence to install signalling.
Signal levers can be sponsored for £200 each, and those who donate this amount will be invited to visit the ‘box on its reopening to operate ‘their’ lever. They will also receive two free tickets for a standard MNR running day and will have their name recorded on a plaque on the signalbox wall. Donors of £100 will also receive two tickets and their name on a plaque. A sponsorship package is available for larger donations; for details, contact Peter Singlehurst, project manager for the signalbox refurbishment, at Peter. Singlehurst@mnr.org.uk
➜ Donations can be made online at www.midnorfolkrailway.co.uk/ wymondhamsbappeal, by bank transfer at NatWest Bank (sort code 60-07-47; account number 52109003) using the reference ‘Wymondham SB Appeal’, or by cheque, payable to MNRPT, to: Mid-Norfolk Railway Kimberley Appeal, The Railway Station, Station Road, Dereham NR19 1DF.