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LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Barnt Green: mrbg615a

Close up showing the lower quadrant home starter mounted on the up Redditch platform

Close up of image 'mrbg615' showing the lower quadrant home starter mounted on the up Redditch platform. The description 'lower quadrant' refers to the position the signal arm. Both an upper and lower quadrant signal are in the 'at danger' position when horizontal (as seen above). Lower quadrant signals are lowered below the horizontal the when in the 'off' or 'all clear' position, whereas upper quadrant signals are raised above the horizontal when in the 'off' or 'all clear' position. The move by most railways (GWR excepted) to adopt the upper quadrant signal as standard followed a serious accident which was caused by snow preventing the arm to be raised back to the horizontal or danger position. The signal box, just visible behind the group of passengers standing on the down Redditch branch platform, was the third signal box at the station and was opened on 28th November 1897 remaining in service until 1929 when it was replaced by an LMS model some one hundred yards further towards Birmingham.

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