GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Leamington South Junction: gwrls3972

A post 1961 external view of Leamington South Junction Signal Box showing the coal bunker to the left. On the right the single storey extension is just visible. In image 'gwrls806' it can be seen to have slit windows indicating a wartime build (possibly a look out point for the ARP or Home Guard as it overlooks the canal, not an air raid shelter as it has a corrugated roof). Note the track is flat-bottom fixed with elastic spikes, not bull-head in chairs. The LMS trialled flat-bottom track in 1936 and introduced elastic spikes in 1939, but the GWR only introduced these in 1946.

Robert Ferris

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