Box

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Box

Opened on the Great Western Railway.


News items

17/06/2023Carlisle Power Signal Box locomotive marks 50 years of progress [News and Star]
16/05/2023Further progress at HS2's Old Oak Common Station site as first base slab poured [HS2]
03/03/2023Iconic railway signal box to open its doors for one-off public tours [Network Rail]
22/02/2023Sending all the right signals: 130-year-old North Wales signal box gets £140,000 upgrade [Network Rail]
18/02/2023Save Doon Valley Railway [Doon Valley Railway]
05/01/2023Listed Birmingham New Street signal box to be repurposed [Architects Journal]
29/12/2022HS2 completes World-First box bridge slide over the M42 in Warwickshire [HS2]
23/12/2022End of the line for Brutalist Brummie signal box [BBC News]
23/12/2022End of an era for Birmingham New Street's iconic signalbox [Network Rail]
01/12/2022Century-old Reedham signal box to start new life as simulator [BBC News]

Books


A History of the Great Western Railway

An Illustrated History of Great Western Diesel Railcars

Great Western Railway Then and Now

Great Western Railway: A History

The Great Western Railway Volume One: Paddington to Bristol: 1

The Great Western Railway: 150 Glorious Years (GWR)