GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Birmingham Snow Hill Station: gwrbsh1193

An internal view of Snow Hill North Signal Box in 1932 showing a 'Bobby' at work 'pulling off' one of the many 224 electrically operated levers. At the beginning of railways train movements were controlled by railway policeman at a period in time that Robert Peel was founding the Metropolitan Police. As Peel's constables were known as Peelers or Bobbies the latter nickname was also applied to the railway police controlling trains and continued to be used in many areas of the country until the end of steam.

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