Image Interior, Rainford Junction signal box (LMS, 1933)
Interior, Rainford Junction signal box (LMS, 1933)
Interior, Rainford Junction signal box (LMS, 1933) Whilst photographing Rainford Junction signal box the signalman on duty spotted Andy and I with our cameras. It's a sad testament to the modern railway that we were expecting some verbal abuse. However, to make a pleasant change he invited us into the box and gave us a guided tour. As can be seen, the lever frame is much reduced looking a little incongruous on such an operating floor. The 1933 LMS box was used to control the busy intersection of the Liverpool and Bury Railway, the East Lancashire Railway's Skelmersdale Branch and the St. Helens Railway. However, lines gradually closed during the 1950s and 1960s and by the 1970s the line was down to just the single route between Wigan and Kirkby and the station was renamed plain old Rainford but still retains in original name on the nameboard. Keywords: Interior Rainford Junction signal box LMS, 1933
Interior, Rainford Junction signal box (LMS, 1933) Whilst photographing Rainford Junction signal box the signalman on duty spotted Andy and I with our cameras. It's a sad testament to the modern railway that we were expecting some verbal abuse. However, to make a pleasant change he invited us into the box and gave us a guided tour. As can be seen, the lever frame is much reduced looking a little incongruous on such an operating floor. The 1933 LMS box was used to control the busy intersection of the Liverpool and Bury Railway, the East Lancashire Railway's Skelmersdale Branch and the St. Helens Railway. However, lines gradually closed during the 1950s and 1960s and by the 1970s the line was down to just the single route between Wigan and Kirkby and the station was renamed plain old Rainford but still retains in original name on the nameboard. Keywords: Interior Rainford Junction signal box LMS, 1933


Whilst photographing Rainford Junction signal box the signalman on duty

spotted Andy and I with our cameras. It's a sad testament to the modern railway that we were expecting some verbal abuse. However, to make a pleasant change he invited us into the box and gave us a guided tour. As can be seen, the lever frame is much reduced looking a little incongruous on such an operating floor. The 1933 LMS box was used to control the busy intersection of the Liverpool and Bury Railway, the East Lancashire Railway's Skelmersdale Branch and the St. Helens Railway. However, lines gradually closed during the 1950s and 1960s and by the 1970s the line was down to just the single route between Wigan and Kirkby and the station was renamed plain old Rainford but still retains in original name on the nameboard.