Image Syston South Junction signal box (MR, 1911)
Syston South Junction signal box (MR, 1911)
Syston South Junction signal box (MR, 1911) Taken from the southern end Syston South Junction is seen looking remarkably original right down to its finials and windows. The box was a Midland Type 4c design that replaced an earlier 1887 structure on the opposite side of the line. Closure came on 26.08.87 when the signalling from Syston to Loughborough and Frisby passed to the Leicester PSB. Notice the signalman's almost new ('W' registration was 1980/1981) nice and shiny Vespa moped parked up at the bottom of the steps waiting to whisk him home with a haze of two-stroke exhaust following at the end of what would have probably been his two-to-ten shift. Keywords: Syston South Junction signal box MR Midland Railway
Syston South Junction signal box (MR, 1911) Taken from the southern end Syston South Junction is seen looking remarkably original right down to its finials and windows. The box was a Midland Type 4c design that replaced an earlier 1887 structure on the opposite side of the line. Closure came on 26.08.87 when the signalling from Syston to Loughborough and Frisby passed to the Leicester PSB. Notice the signalman's almost new ('W' registration was 1980/1981) nice and shiny Vespa moped parked up at the bottom of the steps waiting to whisk him home with a haze of two-stroke exhaust following at the end of what would have probably been his two-to-ten shift. Keywords: Syston South Junction signal box MR Midland Railway


Taken from the southern end Syston South Junction is seen

looking remarkably original right down to its finials and windows. The box was a Midland Type 4c design that replaced an earlier 1887 structure on the opposite side of the line. Closure came on 26.08.87 when the signalling from Syston to Loughborough and Frisby passed to the Leicester PSB. Notice the signalman's almost new ('W' registration was 1980/1981) nice and shiny Vespa moped parked up at the bottom of the steps waiting to whisk him home with a haze of two-stroke exhaust following at the end of what would have probably been his two-to-ten shift.