LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
LMS Route: Hampton in Arden to Whitacre

Whitacre Station: mrwj1165

An end elevation view of Whitacre Station's 1939 LMS signal box which was responsible for the sidings as well as all main line workings. The London, Midland & Scottish continued to use designs of its three major constituents for some years before producing its own design. The LMS's own signal box design, when it finally appeared, was a diplomatic mix of the pleasant architecture of the Midland with the economy of the London & North Western designs. The LMS was the only company to adopt the Railway Executive Committee's 1921 approved design of lever frame - not an entirely surprising decision as it was a direct development of the Midland Railway's design. Block instruments, however, generally followed the individual pre-grouping railways' practice. Courtesy of www.signalbox.org

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