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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Moor Street Station: gwrms1728
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Close to the rear of Moor Street signal box at the end of
the island platform, British Railways installed a replacement steel tubular
signal post with two pairs of lower quadrant starting signals. This photograph
is dated 1964 and originally there was a wooden signal post here with only two
starting signals - one for each of the platform roads, however underneath each
of the starting signals was a route indicator with two banners (Up Relief
Lever Nos. 6 and 7, or Up Goods Lever Nos. 21 and 22). Moor
Street signal box was a Great Western Railway type 27C signal box opened on 7th
September 1913 with 118 levers at 4 inch centres in a three bar horizontal
tappet frame. The frame was converted to a five bar vertical tappet frame on
14th December 1943. The signal box was unusual in that the upper operating
floor overhung the twelve foot wide brickbase. This was due to the signal box
being built in a restricted location between the main line to Snow Hill and the
lines to Moor Street terminus and goods depot.
Robert Ferris
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