Unique gantry to be dismantled this week

Rail bosses have set a date for the removal of a unique signal bridge gantry, the last of its type in Britain, which is to be rebuilt to serve the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.

Network Rail says the Grade II listed structure at Falsgrave, Scarborough, will be dismantled on Wednesday as part of the 60m modernisation of the signalling system on the approach to Scarborough railway station.

Dating back to 1911, it is the last cross-track semaphore signal gantry in use on Britain's mainline railways. After being restored in workshops on the preserved railway, it will be modified to work at Grosmont station.