Image Chester No. 5 signal box (GWR LNWR, 1874)
Chester No. 5 signal box (GWR LNWR, 1874)
Chester No. 5 signal box (GWR LNWR, 1874) Chester No. 5 signal box was probably the least busy of all the boxes in the vicinity of the station and the various junctions that surrounded it. It was located on the Birkenhead line at the point where the avoiding lines from Chester No. 6 joined (that I sadly never got to see and was so close to where I stood to take this photograph). No. 5 box was different to all the others being one jointly commissioned by the GWR and LNWR being built in 1874. It was extended twice during its life in both 1908 and 1915 with evidence of this work seen in this photograph. I am not at all sure how I managed to get this photograph but I will probably have scrambled down the embankment from Brook Lane's bridge. Notice the Chester wagon works in the background to the right and the diesel depot to the left that the signal box controlled moved to and from. Keywords: Chester No. 5 signal box number 5 no5
Chester No. 5 signal box (GWR LNWR, 1874) Chester No. 5 signal box was probably the least busy of all the boxes in the vicinity of the station and the various junctions that surrounded it. It was located on the Birkenhead line at the point where the avoiding lines from Chester No. 6 joined (that I sadly never got to see and was so close to where I stood to take this photograph). No. 5 box was different to all the others being one jointly commissioned by the GWR and LNWR being built in 1874. It was extended twice during its life in both 1908 and 1915 with evidence of this work seen in this photograph. I am not at all sure how I managed to get this photograph but I will probably have scrambled down the embankment from Brook Lane's bridge. Notice the Chester wagon works in the background to the right and the diesel depot to the left that the signal box controlled moved to and from. Keywords: Chester No. 5 signal box number 5 no5


Chester No. 5 signal box was probably the least busy

of all the boxes in the vicinity of the station and the various junctions that surrounded it. It was located on the Birkenhead line at the point where the avoiding lines from Chester No. 6 joined (that I sadly never got to see and was so close to where I stood to take this photograph). No. 5 box was different to all the others being one jointly commissioned by the GWR and LNWR being built in 1874. It was extended twice during its life in both 1908 and 1915 with evidence of this work seen in this photograph. I am not at all sure how I managed to get this photograph but I will probably have scrambled down the embankment from Brook Lane's bridge. Notice the Chester wagon works in the background to the right and the diesel depot to the left that the signal box controlled moved to and from.