LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
Canley Halt: lnwrchg546a
Close up of image 'lnwrcov546' showing the former LNWR
Canley Gates signal cabin mounted on a low brick built frame room. The LNWR
Type 4 Signal Cabin was the standard LNWR design of signal cabin for many years
and were built in large numbers from the mid-1870s until the introduction of
the Type 5 in 1904. The size of the cabin varied according to the number of
levers which had to be accommodated, from 15 to 180. The height of the frame
room reflected local topography, in this instance the need for the cabin to low
for the signalman to see through the arch of the metal pedestrian
footbridge.
Photographer John Hyde © Steam Archive
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