LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth

Polesworth Station: lnwr_pol1212

Looking towards Tamworth showing the post-1909 configuration of the layout of Polesworth station with the signal box in the centre. This view clearly shows the ex-LNWR passenger footbridge in its complete form with sheeted half-height sides and covered walkway and staircases. To the left and in front of the porters barrow crossing is a ground signal, a disk shaped device that repeated an adjacent, but some distance away, semaphore signal. This was invaluable to locomotive drivers during bad weather or night time manoeuvres and in this case was probably used when reversing from the down slow in to the refuge siding - the points of which can just be seen on the left.

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