LMS Route: Stratford Midland Junction - The Shakespeare Route

Stratford on Avon Station: smj_misc292

The Webb-Thompson electric train staff used by the platelayers' trolley between Clifford Siding and Ettington. Webb-Thompson Electric Staff Instrument The London North Western Railway also built their own electric staff instruments for single lines, and in accordance with their signal engineer's habits they were massively constructed in cast iron. As with other types of single line instrument, the purpose was to allow only one staff to be available at any time for each single line section but to maintain the flexibility of more than one train travelling in the same direction prior to one coming the other way. The London North Western Railway subsequently allowed these instruments to be manufactured under licence by the Railway Signal Company, who sold them to many other companies, at home and abroad.

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