LMS Route: Birmingham West Suburban Railway

Church Road Station: mrchrd866a

Close up of image 'mrchrd866' showing Church Road tunnel and the lower quadrant signal suspended from beneath the passenger footbridge. The arm is pointing to the right and is fixed to the other side of the post indicating that its protecting the up line (on the right). The reason its been placed so far over to almost above the down line is to aid its sighting by the driver of locomotives coming through the tunnel. To the left of the steps on the down platform an unusual telegraph pole configuration can be seen. The arms carrying the wires are cantilevered to the left instead of being centrally positioned. This is because there is little ground between the railway and the canal to accommodate the post in a central position.

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