GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Solihull Station: gwrs274b

Close up of image 'gwrs274' showing Solihull station's new Down and Up Relief platforms and the replacement signal box. The signal gantry on the left has two arms and its the Up Relief Starting signal. Martin Crane writes, 'the taller arm is "off" for a train to continue towards Dorridge along the Up Relief line. The lower arm on the signal reads for trains crossing from the Up Relief to the Up Main line at the south end of the station'. The Great Western signals were described as lower quadrant signals as they pointed downwards when indicating the 'road' was clear. Once common to all railway companies, they were changed by all but the GWR to upper quadrant signals (pointing upwards) after a railway accident caused by snow preventing their return to the horizontal position which indicated danger.

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