borderreiver
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Looking good Lewisner, though a pity that you have had to start over from prior to the data loss. Shincliffe was quite a distinctive station with its cantilever style NER signal box and I find the original station building rather interesting too. I had Paul Mace build several different versions of NER Northern Division signal boxes but I did not reach the cantilever types at Shincliffe, Fencehouses, Usworth and Haltwhistle. If I recall it correctly Shincliffe signal box was modified part way through its life too. I think that there is a need for the 1840s style of station building and railway house, as typified by overhanging eaves and relatively large, finely dressed stone blocks. Examples such as Shincliffe and the railside houses near Relly Mill are examples of the period. I think that the station building at Boldon Colliery is a further example which is no longer with us.