The LMS built Kettering Junction signal box in 1935 to

replace two Midland boxes, one here and another slightly further south named Pytchley. This functional rather than attractive LMS designed box differs from the Midland boxes that it repaced by having a gabled roof and an attractive panelled brick base. This one controlled the double junctions of the crossovers between the fast and slow lines and the divergence of the single line to Huntingdon linking with the ECML. Notice the small extension to the steps at the far end of the box used by the signalmen for the exchange of the tokens for the said line. I have also seen a photograph taken inside the box of the unusual signal wire tightening device to take account of expansion during hot weather that would give inaccurate arm indication.