LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham
Broom Junction station: mrbj148a
This close up of image 'mrbj148' shows the third signal box
sited at Broom Junction which opened on 6th May 1934. Note the steps complete
with handrails alongside the over bridge. Broom Junction was originally named
Broom South until the 1934 when the structure seen above was configured to
handle the station's requirements both north and south thereby replacing Broom
North signal box seen in image 'mrbj149'.
To confuse matters, when the south curve from the SMJ line
was completed in 1942 to accommodate through trains from Gloucester to London,
this signal box was renamed Broom North because a new signal box was built to
the south of this view called Broom South to handle the south curve's
traffic.
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