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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

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An updated version of an 1841 map of Allesley Lane Gates showing a 'Police Box' and two railway cottages

An updated version of an 1841 map of Allesley Lane Gates showing a 'Police Box' and two railway cottages. Signalmen are still known as 'Bobbies' reflecting the time when railway police controlled the departure and arrival of trains. The railways were controlled by policemen who were responsible for carrying out the duties that we associate with signalmen today. The above map was provided by Russell Burridge who copied two huge 4ft x 2ft folders showing in detail the route as surveyed in 1841 by Binns & Clifford of Birmingham, and updated by F Wood of Rugby in 1863 and then by others up until circa 1875.

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