Image Kibworth Station signal box (Midland, 1926)
Kibworth Station signal box (Midland, 1926)
Kibworth Station signal box (Midland, 1926) Kibworth Station signal box was built in 1927 by the LMS utilising the pre-grouping Midland Type 4d design. The box stood at the western end of the station off the platform ramp and replaced a much earlier 1889 structure. The box did not remain in the same state over the coming seven years before its closure as it suffered fire damage early in 1984. It was temporarily closed with the previously closed East Langton box being brought back into use. It was subsequently repaired with the hipped roof replaced by a flat version and the enamel nameplate moved from the end of the box to the front. It finally closed on 29.06.86 when all the boxes between Leicester and Market Harborough passed their control over to Leicester PSB located just north of the depot on the eastern side of the lines. Interestingly, the fabled 'Leicester Gap' was one of the very last sections of the MML to be resignalled but the first to be modernised with the PSB closing in 2008 with control moving to the East Midlands Regional Signalling Centre at Derby. Keywords: Kibworth Station signal box
Kibworth Station signal box (Midland, 1926) Kibworth Station signal box was built in 1927 by the LMS utilising the pre-grouping Midland Type 4d design. The box stood at the western end of the station off the platform ramp and replaced a much earlier 1889 structure. The box did not remain in the same state over the coming seven years before its closure as it suffered fire damage early in 1984. It was temporarily closed with the previously closed East Langton box being brought back into use. It was subsequently repaired with the hipped roof replaced by a flat version and the enamel nameplate moved from the end of the box to the front. It finally closed on 29.06.86 when all the boxes between Leicester and Market Harborough passed their control over to Leicester PSB located just north of the depot on the eastern side of the lines. Interestingly, the fabled 'Leicester Gap' was one of the very last sections of the MML to be resignalled but the first to be modernised with the PSB closing in 2008 with control moving to the East Midlands Regional Signalling Centre at Derby. Keywords: Kibworth Station signal box


Kibworth Station signal box was built in 1927 by the

LMS utilising the pre-grouping Midland Type 4d design. The box stood at the western end of the station off the platform ramp and replaced a much earlier 1889 structure. The box did not remain in the same state over the coming seven years before its closure as it suffered fire damage early in 1984. It was temporarily closed with the previously closed East Langton box being brought back into use. It was subsequently repaired with the hipped roof replaced by a flat version and the enamel nameplate moved from the end of the box to the front. It finally closed on 29.06.86 when all the boxes between Leicester and Market Harborough passed their control over to Leicester PSB located just north of the depot on the eastern side of the lines. Interestingly, the fabled 'Leicester Gap' was one of the very last sections of the MML to be resignalled but the first to be modernised with the PSB closing in 2008 with control moving to the East Midlands Regional Signalling Centre at Derby.