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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
Berkswell and Balsall Common: lnwrberk2357
Looking towards Birmingham from the passenger footbridge
showing the two sets of signals on the right on 15th April 1962. The two
signals controlled the lines to Coventry and Kenilworth, the signal to Coventry
being on the right and the signal to Kenilworth being on the left. The reason
the authorities used two signal posts with semaphore arms on each for the inner
home signals rather than a bracket signal (which would only have one post) is
due to siting problems caused by the curve and the bridge which effected crews
of trains travelling in the up direction. The signals need to be seen in time
and therefore were raised high enough to be viewed above the bridge. However
this solution meant that in poor weather and fog the signal arms could be too
high to be seen from the footplate. Therefore repeater arms were fitted to the
posts at almost cab level.
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