TWO signs from a railway station made £5,700 when they were sold at auction.

The first, a platform sign from Saltburn station, in east Cleveland, made £3,300 and the second, advertising the former Zetland Hotel, made £2,400 when it was bought by an anonymous local collector from Staithes, near Whitby, North Yorkshire.

Railway enthusiasts from across the country travelled to the auction in Rugby, Warwickshire, where the signs were one of the highlights of the sale.

The signs, in the livery of the North Eastern Region of British Railways, were removed from Saltburn station in the 1970s and scrapped.

David Nathan, of Teesside auction house Vectis, which sold the signs, said: "All railway station signs sell for very good money, but these are very hard to find, especially the one advertising the hotel.

"The Zetland Hotel was very well known throughout the country and had its own siding.

"Two coaches from holiday trains would be shunted through an arch into the hotel's own siding and passengers would alight on to a special platform."

The hotel is now a block of flats