This is typical of other signals along the line and is operated by the Stevens & Son compensating lever as elsewhere; unusually the arm faces away from the railway, this is because it was relocated from the other end of the station limits in 2012 when the slotted post was installed.  It has an integral access ladder and single aspect lamp built into the arm to show red until the arm is lowered, whereupon the disc moves and exposes the white (clear) light.  It is located atop a bank and the cable ascends the bank via a set of pulleys through which the cable passes from the station some 500 yards distant.

The signal which it replaced was installed during the early years of nationalisation and was in fact a redundant telegraph pole (signals more commonly being square second rather than round) and was time-expired when removed, the last surviving one of its kind. The ornate finial (a spike-like decorative item to stop water ingress) is now in the care of the Friends Of... as are the other pieces of ironmongery removed at the time of its felling, the image below shows the signal when it was removed as well as the replacement in the background.  This illustrates the size of the heavy finial which stands around 2' 0" with a square base to screw atop the timber post.