GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Moor Street Station: gwrms1728

Close to the rear of Moor Street signal box at the end of the island platform, British Railways installed a replacement steel tubular signal post with two pairs of lower quadrant starting signals. This photograph is dated 1964 and originally there was a wooden signal post here with only two starting signals - one for each of the platform roads, however underneath each of the starting signals was a route indicator with two banners (Up Relief – Lever Nos. 6 and 7, or Up Goods – Lever Nos. 21 and 22). Moor Street signal box was a Great Western Railway type 27C signal box opened on 7th September 1913 with 118 levers at 4 inch centres in a three bar horizontal tappet frame. The frame was converted to a five bar vertical tappet frame on 14th December 1943. The signal box was unusual in that the upper operating floor overhung the twelve foot wide brickbase. This was due to the signal box being built in a restricted location between the main line to Snow Hill and the lines to Moor Street terminus and goods depot.

Robert Ferris

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