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LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone
Braunston & Willoughby: gcrbw60
View of Braunston & Willoughby station's signal cabin
with staff posing for the camera circa 1910. The GCR used the term cabin rather
than box when describing their signal, a practice also adopted by the LNWR. The
box is an example of a type introduced by the MS&L in 1894, but was built
after the company renamed itself the Great Central to emphasise its newly
created London route. Whilst the majority of these boxes were built with brick
bases some, as seen above were an all-wood examples, and features included a
shallower roof pitch and a lean-to porch. Only the corner window sections of
the glazed windows slide open. This was to provide access to the footwalk so
that the signalman could clean the windows. Steve Banks writes. 'The signal
boxes were built with brick bases on level ground. Where it was elevated, on an
embankment, for example, they were lighter, all-wood.'
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