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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton

Hampton in Arden Station: lnwrhia2980

View of Hampton in Arden's up starter signal, a combination of pre-grouping and grouping equipment seen on 27th June 1961

View of Hampton in Arden's up starter signal, a combination of pre-grouping and grouping equipment seen on 27th June 1961. Bob Essery writes in Part One of 'DJ Norton's pictorial survey of Railways in West Midlands' that the origin of the signal appeared to be an LMS lattice post supporting a timber Midland Railway type of 'Gallows' which in turn is supporting a LNWR lower quadrant signal arm. Semaphore signal arms were described as either being 'upper' or 'lower' quadrant. This description described the arc of the signal arm when moved from the danger position (horizontal) to the clear or off position 'right of way). In a lower quadrant signal, the arm pivots downwards for the 'off' indication whereas the an upper quadrant signal, as the name implies, pivots the arm upward to the 'off' position.

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