LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham
GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Birmingham New Street - Southern Approaches:
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Looking towards St Andrews whilst in the distance a 4F
stands under Coventry Road bridge whilst to the right an unknown LMS locomotive
waits on the GWR connecting line. The brick-built signal box has been built
with a wrapper of reinforced concrete to the ground floor where the mechanisms
controlling the signals and pointwork are located. The signal box was erected
in the war to withstand bomb blasts and whilst could not withstand a direct hit
it was much better protected than the standard pre-war timber built
designs.
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