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Harrow Signal Box
London Midland & Scottish Railway Company, London & North Western Railway, and British Railways, London Midland Region1908
National Railway Museum
York, United Kingdom
From London Midland & Scottish Railway Collection. London & North Western Railway signalmen in Harrow signal box, 1908.
The lever frame changed the points and set signals using an interlocking mechanism. Telegraph instruments were used to communicate between signal boxes and warn of the progress of trains through each section of line.
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Details
- Title: Harrow Signal Box
- Creator: London Midland & Scottish Railway Company, London & North Western Railway, British Railways, London Midland Region
- Date Created: 1908
- Location Created: United Kingdom
- Type: photographs
- Rights: Open Government Licence v3.0
- External Link: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co423016
- Medium: glass; paper (fibre product)
- Art Genre: Documentary
- Art Form: photograph
- Support: paper
- Depicted Location: Harrow Signal Box
- Depicted Person: Signalmen
- Depicted Topic: signal box, railway signals, telegraph instruments
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