page_title: Dawlish railway station
section_title: Signalling
hierarchical_section_title: Dawlish railway station / Signalling
caption_attribution_description: English: Dawlish Signal Box (Disused), 13/5/87.
context_page_description: Dawlish railway station is on the Exeter to Plymouth line and serves the town of Dawlish in Devon, England. It is 12 miles 15 chains down the line from Exeter St Davids and 206 miles 7 chains measured from London Paddington via Bristol Temple Meads.
  The station is built on the sea wall, as is the railway line, and has often suffered from storm damage due its proximity to the sea. South of the station the line passes through five tunnels through the cliffs as it follows the coast.
context_section_description: The first signal box was provided on the seaward platform beside the north end of the waiting room but this was replaced by a new two-storey signal box on 9 September 1920 on the opposite platform.  So as to fit on the narrow platform the brick-built lower storey which contained the interlocking equipment was narrower than usual, with the upper storey was vaulted out from this to give a full size operating floor.
  After the summer of 1970 the signal box was only opened on summer weekends or if there were problems working along the sea wall. It finally closed on 27 September 1986 since when the trains have been controlled from Exeter. Despite attempts to find a commercial use for the redundant building, it remained empty until 2013 when it was demolished during the period 2–5 July.
caption: The 1920 signal box
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