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Original Text (Annotation: EPW025192 / 2164763)
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LNWR Type 4, Broad Green Signal Box. The first box to open at this location was opened in December 1871 and was abolished in October 1887. This closure was necessitated with the quadrupling of the track from Olive Mount to the junction with the line to Wigan at the east of Huyton station. The new box was an LNWR type 4 with a wooden top on a brick base built on the station platform and opened in October 1887 it was equipped with an LNWR 19 lever tumbler frame which was later extended to 29 levers. '