Date: 09/08/2013

Today, Friday 9th August, work began on restoring ‘Britain’s Busiest Signal Box’ to display condition. Over the next three weeks rotten wood will be cut out, new lap boarding applied and the whole structure given three coats of wood friendly paint. The effect of Borough Market Junction was to create Britain’s busiest signal box as service density and the resulting time gaps between trains passing over the junction massively increased. With traffic peaking at 89 trains an hour, Borough Market Junction often required two signallers to keep the trains moving. It all ended in 1976, when the box was de-commissioned and brought to York.

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Today, Friday 9th August, work began on restoring Britains Busiest Signal Box to display condition. Over the next three weeks rotten wood will be cut out, new lap boarding applied an

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'Unusually quiet this morning Fred...' The old 'box from Borough Market Junction finds at bit of peace at last in the north yard of the National Railway Museum, York, in June 2013. [See image 43904]
Location: National Railway Museum York
Company: National Railway Museum
06/06/2013 John Furnevel

View over Borough Market Junction on 20 July with trains on the Charing Cross / Blackfriars route (left) and the cross-Thames lines from Cannon Street. The new east-west viaduct seen under construction will enable quadrupling here, with the southern pair of lines handling trains to and from Charing Cross and the northern pair providing Thameslink trains with a dedicated route to Blackfriars - essential in providing the planned 24tph peak service on the route. London Bridge station is just off picture bottom right.
Location: Borough Market Junction
Company: London and Greenwich Railway
20/07/2013 John Thorn