Image Woodhouse Junction signal box (LNER, 1926)
Woodhouse Junction signal box (LNER, 1926)
Woodhouse Junction signal box (LNER, 1926) Without either trespassing on the track or stomping through somebody's garden, it proved impossible to get a picture of the front of the large and impressive Woodhouse Junction signal box! So, a picture of the rear of the 1926 LNER type 11a box will have to suffice! Originally named Woodhouse East Junction the box gained its present name on the closure of the West box in 1970. It sits at what was a key junction on the Great Central network where the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire route between Cleethorpes and Manchester was joined by the newer main route from London before heading through towards Sheffield. Notice that the box has a brick base, this was probably added during World War II to offer what would be a small degree of protection as it and others in the Woodhouse and Beighton area were strategically important and thus probably specific targets for the Luftwaffe. Keywords: Woodhouse Junction signal box
Woodhouse Junction signal box (LNER, 1926) Without either trespassing on the track or stomping through somebody's garden, it proved impossible to get a picture of the front of the large and impressive Woodhouse Junction signal box! So, a picture of the rear of the 1926 LNER type 11a box will have to suffice! Originally named Woodhouse East Junction the box gained its present name on the closure of the West box in 1970. It sits at what was a key junction on the Great Central network where the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire route between Cleethorpes and Manchester was joined by the newer main route from London before heading through towards Sheffield. Notice that the box has a brick base, this was probably added during World War II to offer what would be a small degree of protection as it and others in the Woodhouse and Beighton area were strategically important and thus probably specific targets for the Luftwaffe. Keywords: Woodhouse Junction signal box


Without either trespassing on the track or stomping through somebody's

garden, it proved impossible to get a picture of the front of the large and impressive Woodhouse Junction signal box! So, a picture of the rear of the 1926 LNER type 11a box will have to suffice! Originally named Woodhouse East Junction the box gained its present name on the closure of the West box in 1970. It sits at what was a key junction on the Great Central network where the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire route between Cleethorpes and Manchester was joined by the newer main route from London before heading through towards Sheffield. Notice that the box has a brick base, this was probably added during World War II to offer what would be a small degree of protection as it and others in the Woodhouse and Beighton area were strategically important and thus probably specific targets for the Luftwaffe.