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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

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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