Groups
Signal boxes on the North Staffs
About the group A home for any signal box on the lines of the former North Staffordshire railway.
Created 9 December 2013
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Oakamoor signal box NSR Type 2 design, also NSR BEL No2 locomotive can be seen shunting the Wing line.
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Stone Junction signal box and Meaford Crossing signal box both NSR Type 1 designs
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Macclesfield Central signal box, LMS Type 11c design.
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Macclesfield Central (South) signal box , NSR Type 1 design
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Sutton Crossing signal box with associated level crossing. Signal box looks to be a NSR Type 1 design with McKenzie and Holland wooden crossing gates.
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Cliffe Vale signal box, possibly a NSR Type 1 design later replaced by an LMS Type 11 design
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Brampton Crossing Signal Box, NSR type 2 design
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Apedale Junction signal box, McKenzie and Holland type 1 design
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Longport Station signal box, McKenzie and Holland Type 1 design
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Alsager Station signal box McK Holland Type 1, Alsager East Junction signal box NSR Type 1 and Lawton signal box LNW Type 5.
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Tutbury Signal box and Tutbury Yard signal boxes both of which are McKenzie and Holland type 1
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Rather grainy shot of Whitfield Sidings signal box, NSR Type2 design
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Boltons Sidings Signal box, NSR Type 2 design
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Ketley Sidings signal box, NSR Type 2 design. Controlled access to the Pool Dam branch once Knutton Forge Junction signal box had closed.
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Knutton Forge Junction signal box
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Ketley Sidings signal box, controlled access to the Pool Dam branch
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Pratts Sidings Signal box and Carters Crossing signal box (NSR Type 2) are visible in this picture
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Barlaston and Tittensor signal box, NSR Type 1 design. Just about visible on the right hand edge of the picture
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Hockely Crossing, NSR Type 2 design.
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Another bumper crop of boxes. Stoke North, Stoke yard, Glebe Street, Stoke Junction (LNW Type 5 design) and Carters Crossing.
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Glebe Street signal box, Stoke North signal box and Stoke Yard signal box. 3 signal boxes for the price of one picture.
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Foxfield Colliery Shunting frame, NSR Type 2 design. Controlled access to the Foxfield Colliery exchange sidings.
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Newfields Junction signal box, McK&Holland Type 1 design.
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Pinnox Junction, McK&Holland Type 1 design.
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Cobridge signal box located on the Potteries Loop line.
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Cresswell Signal box, NSR Type 2 design. Controlled the junction for the branch to Cheadle via Tean.
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Stone Junction signal box, NSR Type 1 design.
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Normacot Junction signal box, NSR Type 1 design. This box controlled the junction for the line to Park Hall colliery which was the remains of the Longton, Adderley Green and Bucknall branch closed as a through route by the NSR.
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Bridgewood Sidings signal box, LNW Type 5 design. This was a replacement box built by the LMS shortly after the grouping, it replaced an earlier NSR structure.
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Foley Crossing signal box, NSR Type 2 design.
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Meaford Crossing signal box, NSR type 1 design.
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Burslem signal box visible by Burslem station. McK&Holland type 1 design.
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