This is a flush bracket (so called as they sit flush with a building or post) OS benchmark, the benchmarks were a means of marking a height above sea level. Surveyors made the marks to record height above Ordnance Datum Newlyn (ODN – mean sea level determined at Newlyn in Cornwall).
This quite rare survivor is on the walls of Saltburn Railway Station. Modern cartographic techniques and a digital mapping system have rendered these benchmarks all but obsolete.
On one of the gate posts of the hall turned hotel in Saltburn this sign has been uncovered.
I am assuming this relates to a previous wartime use of the building, which I should think had been used for training.
Quite recently in the car park of Sainsburys in Saltburn the North Eastern Railway (NER) buffers which were adjacent to Dundas Street and the current platform have been set in concrete.
I had wondered where the metal castings had got to when Network Rail were conducting work on the tracks here a while ago. Saltburn in Bloom have been key to them being restored, by Marske Fabrications, and have been placed here as a memorial to the railway heritage of Saltburn.
These castings date from around 1861, NER buffers started to be constructed from rail after this date.
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