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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Lapworth Station: gwrl1438
Looking towards Birmingham with Lapworth signal box on the
left one month before the signal box was closed in September 1969. The Signal
Box looks "switched out" and with the layout pared back to the absolute minimum
- Up & Down Main signals plus Mains crossover (and Discs) which itself
would be taken over by Saltley Power Signal Box as 'Lapworth Emergency Frame'.
The Relief Lines closed some months before Saltley Power Signal Box took over.
A comment on the
Signal Box forum, written under the pseudonym of 'Fosse
Box', 'Prior to it's closure Lapworth box spent much of that year
permanently switched out as there weren't enough signalmen left on the area to
keep it manned!'.
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