This one sent me looking for my pre-Beeching rail atlas Geoff – I’ve identified it from the internet as the NER station sign from the long closed Wharram station nearby – don’t think the buildings it is attached to now were anything to do with the railway.
That’s right – it was the old NER sign made by the “Patent Enamel Co Ltd B.ham”, undated. The cottages, which post-date the deserted village, are perhaps 200 yards from the north entrance of Burdale tunnel. Wharram station was about 3/4 mile north, serving Wharram-le-Street village. The railway (the Malton and Driffield) closed to passengers in 1950, freight in 1958, so survival of the sign is remarkable.
This one sent me looking for my pre-Beeching rail atlas Geoff – I’ve identified it from the internet as the NER station sign from the long closed Wharram station nearby – don’t think the buildings it is attached to now were anything to do with the railway.
That’s right – it was the old NER sign made by the “Patent Enamel Co Ltd B.ham”, undated. The cottages, which post-date the deserted village, are perhaps 200 yards from the north entrance of Burdale tunnel. Wharram station was about 3/4 mile north, serving Wharram-le-Street village. The railway (the Malton and Driffield) closed to passengers in 1950, freight in 1958, so survival of the sign is remarkable.