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Healey Mills PSB - New NX Panel to be installed

A new NX panel is being installed in the former hump control room, at a cost of over £1 million! This includes renewal of much of the original relay system too.

It is hoped the panel will be brought into use in May - quite a challenge for us to learn it as it has been placed facing the opposite way to the original, so appears to us to be 'wrong way round' though geographically correct.

The box is being refurbished too and the area of Control is Huddersfield/Elland/Batley/Horbury Junction (exclusive).

The normal staffing of the box is a signalman and a train recorder, (or two signalmen, one 'doing the book') though often there is a production supervisor in attendance unless required out at some incident or emergency. The Wakefield Signalling Manager is based here too.

The SM, supervisors, and signalmen are a great bunch, very competent and enthusiastic and there is generally a very good rapport with the Yard staff and the drivers