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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Nuneaton to Leamington
Kenilworth Junction: lnwrkj180a
Kenilworth Junction Signal Cabin which was located in the
'V' between the Berkswell branch and the single branch line to Coventry. The
signal box was erected in 1884 and housed the Webb-Thompson full-size electric
train staff equipment which controlled the single line to Coventry. On the LNWR
signal boxes were more usually called 'signal cabins' and were responsible for
a length of track called a block section. With block signalling only one train
would be allowed into the block section at a time. When the line was of single
track construction it was essential that only one train travelled on the line
and to provide this degree of safety a a train staff system was adopted.
To operate the electric train staff the signalman at the
exit end of the single track was required to release the train staff which was
locked in the signal box at the entry to the section. This was achieved by an
electrical switch in the exit signal box being thrown which unlocked the train
staff in the entry signal box. The signalman at the entry signal box then
passed the train staff to the driver who carried it to the exit signal box and
handed it over to that signal box's signalman. The train staff would then be
locked in the exit signal box. The procedure was reversed for trains running in
the opposite direction. Should the timetable dictate several trains passing
through consecutively in the same direction then the equipment would be
configured to have multiple train staffs.
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