The Film Archive of Railway Signalling & People

Hastings

The signal box opened in 1930 as a replacement for the two previous boxes and as a preliminary to the rebuilding of the station, goods yard and the major remodelling of the layout. It is equipped with a Westinghouse A2 frame which over the years has changed from an essentially mechanically locked frame to one that mainly uses electrical locking.

The geographic location of the station can be seen on a current OS Map by following the link. The map will place the selected location at the centre of the map panel, roll the mouse over the icon(s) to reveal what they represent. Increase the scale using the scale selector on the left to separate closely positioned icons.

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Video Credits

Filmed by:	Neil Mackay
Filmed on:	14 July 2017
Interviewer:	Richard Pulleyn
Narrator:	Luke Arnold
Signaller:	Luke Arnold
Deputy Local Operations Manager:	Nick Wellington
Technical Advisor:	Charles Weightman
Video Editor:	George Duncan

Key Chronology

1851	Ashford to St Leonards opened by South Eastern Railway including the station at Hastings.
by 1863	Block working in use by SER.
1891	Hastings East Yard and Hastings West Yard signal boxes opened.
1899	LCDR & SER form a joint committee to work the two companies as a single entity but both companies remain legally separate.
1909	Hastings East Yard and Hastings West Yard signal boxes replaced.
1930	New Hastings signal box opened, replacing both previous signal boxes.
1935	Brighton to Ore electrified by Southern Railway.
1977	Ore signal box closed, control transferred to Hastings.
1979	Hastings (Ore) to Rye changed to Tokenless Block working.

* An explanation of these classifications will be found in "The Signal Box" and in volume 4 (Southern) of the Signalling Record Society's Signal Box Register series.

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