GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Birmingham Snow Hill Station: gwrbsh1737

Fifty years after opening on 31st October 1909, Birmingham North Signal Box had just one year left in service when this photograph was taken in 1959. This Signal box had cost 923 pounds, 2 shillings and 10 pence for the building, plus a further £5,000 for the fabrication and construction of the supporting steel gantry frame. The trunking covering the multicore cables between the frame and the point switch machines and signals has been removed in preparation for the rerouting of these power cables to the replacement signal box. Other cables can be seen hanging temporarily beneath the frame. In the foreground is a power operated triple disc ground signal.

Robert Ferris

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