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The Directory of British Signal Boxes

The Directory of British Signal Boxes is a comprehensive listing, in line order, of all signal box locations in the UK. It is provided as text files in a choice of three formats that are compatible with most computers.

The Directory is divided into five sections, based around the "Big Four" railway companies plus a section for miscellaneous railways, for ease of use. Even so, one section is over 200 pages in length if printed out!

Simple to use, the documents provide an ideal base for historian's records, diagrams and photographic collections.

          LYMINGTON JUNCTION TO HAMWORTHY JUNCTION

S57/04    Holmsley
    05    Crow Crossing
    06    Ringwood East
    07    Ringwood West/Ringwood
    08    Woolsbridge Crossing/Ashley Heath
    09    West Moors
    10    Uddens Crossing
    11a   Canford Crossing #
    11    Wimborne
    12    Wimborne Junction
S57/13    Oakley Crossing #
    14    Broadstone Junction/Broadstone
    15    Lytchett Crossing

Here is an extract from the Southern Railway section. Notice how boxes that were renamed, or renewed with a different name, are shown. The # symbol indicates level crossings that were not of full block post status.

          COCKERMOUTH JUNCTION TO DERWENT JUNCTION

LM130/21  Cockermouth Junction 
      22  Brigham No1
      23  Brigham No2/Brigham  
      23a Broughton Cross
      23b Marron Junction No2
LM131/01  Marron Junction No1/Marron Junction
      02  Camerton
      03  William Pit Sidings
      03a Seaton Mill Crossing #
      03b Derwent Tin Plate Works
      04  Workington Bridge

Here is another extract, from the LMS section for the LNWR line between Cockermouth and Workington. Each section of line is indexed in the front pages of the document so they can easily be found.

          MANSION HOUSE TO RAVENSCOURT PARK JUNCTION (LSW)

LT7/07    Mansion House
    08    Blackfriars
    08a   Sion College
    09    Temple
    10    Charing Cross
    11    Westminster Bridge/Westminster
    12    St James Park
    13    Victoria
    13a   Elizabeth Street
    14    Sloane Square
    14a   Prince's Street
    15    South Kensington
    16    Brompton/Gloucester Road
    17    Cromwell Curve "B"/Cromwell Road/Earls Court
    18    Earls Court/Earls Court East
    18a   Warwick Road
    19    Hammersmith Junction/Earls Court West
    19a   North End
    20    West Kensington East
    21    West Kensington West
    21a   Barons Court
    22    Hammersmith
    22a   Hammersmith West

Even the less well-documented railway companies are covered in detail. This extract comes from the Miscellaneous Railways section and covers part of the Metropolitan District railway.

The listings are provided in a choice of:

WordPerfect for Windows format (includes hyperlinks from the index and will import easily into Microsoft Word)
ASCII DOS format (a less user-friendly format, compatible with nearly all editor software)
Portable Document Format (a cross-platform format, retaining the original typefaces and formatting).

Prices

The Directory of British Signal Boxes is available by mail order for the price of £12.50. Some formats/sections are available for free download - see below.

Please note that the files are normally sent out on CD-ROM. If this is inconvenient, they can be supplied on floppy discs but the PDF files will not be included.

As a bonus, clipart sets up to Set 5 will be included on CD-ROM sales free of charge.

Send cheque/PO made payable to John Hinson to the following address:

Grafton Lodge Annexe, Grafton Regis, Northants. NN12 7SR

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Overseas orders, please enclose additional 50p per set. All payments in UK Sterling please.

As more and more historical information continues to be unearthed, the Directory undergoes continuous updating. Updates are available for a nominal handling charge, and are supplied free to those who have provided a substantial amount of useful information.

Free Downloads

One section of the Directory of British Signal Boxes is available for free download from this site in PDF or WordPerfect format. You can download this to test compatibility with your word-processing software if you do not have WordPerfect.

Note that that the documents available for download may not be the most up to date version available, as they are provided for demonstration purposes.

Portable Document File (PDF) format

Section 5
Miscellaneous railway company lines

sb5-mis.pdf
(607 kb)

WordPerfect for Windows (WPD) format

Section 5
Miscellaneous railway company lines

miscwp.zip
(30 kb)

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