GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Earlswood Lakes Station: gwrel454

Looking towards Stratford Upon Avon with the signal box sited at the end of the down platform. The signal box was not permanently open until 1938 being switched out when loadings were light. Switching a box out was a common practice on most railways, a procedure most common on a Sunday when goods traffic was very light.

Switching out a box was a simple matter. All required was for one of the neighbouring signal boxes to take over its responsibility for the traffic passing through its section. Signals on the main line in the switched out section would be locked in the off position, thus two sections became one.

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