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Perhaps surprisingly, the station at Chathill - itself no more than an isolated hamlet - has survived although the train service is meagre. It was at one time the junction for a branch to Seahouses but that closed in 1951. The station buildings are now a private residence but the occupant has placed this display of signs outside on the platform. The two 'totem' signs are of a design used by British Railways between 1948 and 1965 but the shape is so often adopted today by all sorts of businesses to signify a railway connection that they must be familiar to many people who do not remember the originals. The orange colour was used in British Railways' North Eastern Region.