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LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton
LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
LMS Route: Hampton in Arden to Whitacre

Whitacre Station: mrwj1165

An end elevation view of Whitacre Junction's 1939 LMS signal box which was responsible for the sidings as well as all main line workings

An end elevation view of Whitacre Station's 1939 LMS signal box which was responsible for the sidings as well as all main line workings. The London, Midland & Scottish continued to use designs of its three major constituents for some years before producing its own design. The LMS's own signal box design, when it finally appeared, was a diplomatic mix of the pleasant architecture of the Midland with the economy of the London & North Western designs. The LMS was the only company to adopt the Railway Executive Committee's 1921 approved design of lever frame - not an entirely surprising decision as it was a direct development of the Midland Railway's design. Block instruments, however, generally followed the individual pre-grouping railways' practice. Courtesy of www.signalbox.org

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