LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Broom Junction Station: mrbj537a

Close up of image 'mrbj537' showing the rear of the standard MR angled two-faced station name board and its central ornate supporting bracket. The two faces were set at an oblique angle to each other thereby allowing passengers to view the name board a little earlier and clearer than would be the case if they were parallel with the track as was the case with most other railway companies' station name boards. See image 'mrbj156a' for a view of the front of the name board. The equipment seen between the two sets of tracks are two ground (disc) signals which would repeat the relative semaphore signal which in this instance was located to the left of the photographer (see the bracket signals on the right of image 'mrbj156a'). Clearly there must have been instances of damage to them as, unusually, they are protected by a steel bar running over the top.

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From the John Mann collection supplied by Nick Catford of http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/