Signal Box and Setting

1 Norwich Quay · Lyttelton

What is known

Nothing is recorded about this place yet.

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Leads, unread first 10 of 38

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Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 27 October 1860) …istles and watches id each china wax and crying dolls india rubber balls in great variety signal horns and trumpets large draft and chess men and boards water colour boxes acin immense variety guns bo… — 27 Oct 1860
Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 03 November 1860) …istles and watches id each china wax and crying dolls india rubber balls in great variety signal horns and trumpets large draft and chess men and boards water colour boxes c in immense variety guns bo… — 3 Nov 1860
Shipping News. (Lyttelton Times, 15 May 1858) …e bells are laid on for other ports of i new zealand a ship doubtless the montmorency was signalled outside yesterday but had not arrived at the anchorage at tjhe time of our going to press j… — 15 May 1858
Local Intelligence. (Lyttelton Times, 19 September 1857) …portion of oxford street on the arrival of the james gibson from otago the other day the signals on mount pleasant were made use of for the first time for some months the cause of the omission had be… — 19 Sept 1857
AKAROA. (Star, 27 February 1869) …s vessel to the inefficiency of the pilotage system and asserted that if his messages and signals had been attended to by the pilots tbe formosa would have come safely into port argus feb 11… — 27 Feb 1869
Lyttelton signal box — 16 May 2016
ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS. (Ashburton Guardian, 21 June 1911) …it appears that mills who was in the habit of riding on the train from the station to the signal-box and dropping off at thesignal-box boarded the 645 train at christchurch at the station last evening… — 21 Jun 1911
A THOUGHTLESS ACT. (Star, 02 March 1905) …man passing over the tunnel mouth saw him go in and informed the official in the adjacent signal-box the latter telephoned to tne lyttelton station but in the meantime the special train with the passe… — 2 Mar 1905
VERY CLOSE TO DEATH. (Northern Advocate, 21 June 1911) …d railway hand had been in tbe habit of riding on the train from lyttelton station to the signal box a feav chains distant last night he over-ran the usual place for dropping off and did not jump till… — 21 Jun 1911
EXTRA EDITION. SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT. (Evening Post, 21 June 1911) …nced railway hand had been in the habit of riding on trains from lyttelton station to the signal-box a few chains distant 1 last night he overran tbe usual place for dropping off and did not jump till… — 21 Jun 1911

Nearby on the register

2 Norwich Quay — 2 Norwich Quay
Former Harbour Board Office and Setting — 5 Norwich Quay
Former British Hotel and Setting — 10 Oxford Street
Former Lyttelton Borough Council Stables and Setting — 4 Donald Street
Pilgrims Landing Site and Setting — 7 Norwich Quay
Commercial Building and Setting — 13 Oxford Street
Commercial Building and Setting — 20 Oxford Street
Former Masonic Lodge Hall, Lodge of Unanimity, and Setting — 6 St Davids Street

The reports nearby

1,000 council reports pinned within 250 m of the place — most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 873 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge 5C Norwich Quay, Banks Peninsula, Lyttelton · 5 October 2026