Build a Hawksmoor NSW Signal Box Kit

N.S.W. Asbestos Cement Signal Box kit by Hawksmoor, obtained from Casula Hobbies, 62 Moore St, Liverpool 2170. Ph: 02 9602 8640. Website: www. casulahobbies.com.au. Price: $48.95.

Prototype

Signal boxes of this design were constructed by the NSWGR from the mid-1940s to the early 1950s and their simple and cheap to construct design was a response to the austerity imposed by the Second World War. They were found mostly at locations constructed during WW2 to increase the capacity of the system, such as intermediate crossing loops on long single line sections in response to the greatly increased wartime traffic. I only know a few locations where this style was constructed (I haven’t yet acquired copies of Bob Taaffe’s new