GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Solihull Station: gwrs274b

Close up of image 'gwrs274' showing Solihull station's new Down and Up Relief platforms and the replacement signal box. The signal gantry on the left has two arms, the taller arm is for departure on the up slow, the lower of the arms allows a train to cross onto the up fast. Its the signal for the slow which is in the 'off' position indicating a train arriving at the Down Relief (extreme right) platform. The Great Western signals were described as lower quadrant signals as they pointed downwards when indicating the 'road' was clear. Once common to all railway companies, they were changed by all but the GWR to upper quadrant signals (pointing upwards) after a railway accident caused by snow preventing their return to the horizontal position which indicated danger.

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