Product Description
Norwood Junction signal box with its Westinghouse Brake & Signal Co. Ltd. Style 'L' Power Lever Frame was opened by British Railways on 21st March 1954 at the same time as Gloucester Road Junction It was built to the British Railways Southern Region Type 15 design and was fitted with a 107 lever Westinghouse 'L' frame (frame number 130).
Norwood Junction signal box
Norwood Junction signal box with its Westinghouse Brake & Signal Co. Ltd. Style 'L' Power Lever Frame was opened by British Railways on 21st March 1954 at the same time as Gloucester Road Junction It was built to the British Railways Southern Region Type 15 design and was fitted with a 107 lever Westinghouse 'L' frame (frame number 130).
Southern Region Resignalling of the London to Brighton Line which occurred between 1950 to 1955 which aimed to abolish all the semaphore signalling from the south end of the London Bridge scheme and also from just outside of Victoria which met at Windmill Bridge Junction (latterly known as Gloucester Road Junction) north of Croydon.
It replaced the following former London, Brighton & South Coast Railway signal boxes. Norwood Junction North opened in 1904 fitted with a 68 lever frame, and Norwood Junction South opened in 1881 fitted with an 87 lever frame. Here we have 3 lever description plates and a makers plate mounted on a hardwood base.