Signal box interior, Newmarket station, 1959

Object detail

Accession number

10-1544

Maker

Les Downey

Description

Black and white print of interior of Newmarket North Signal box and Signalman Jack Barnes.
The signal levers in this image are “reversed” or “pulled off” are to allow a train through. When no train is due the levers would all be vertical.

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Paper/Photographic

Physical description

1 photograph : black and white ; 25 cm.

Collection

Les Downey Rail Collection

Credit Line

Les Downey. 1959. Signal box interior, Newmarket station, 1959, 10-1544. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

Production place

Newmarket
Auckland City
Auckland District
Auckland
New Zealand

Current rights

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Classification

Photograph Print, Photographic Communication Artefacts Documentary Artefacts Graphic Documents

Subject

Railroad signal towers Newmarket Railway Station

Collection type

Pictorial Walsh Memorial Library

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