Woodford signal box

Woodford signal box was built by London Transport and the frame was installed in 1939-40 but the re-signalling scheme postponed for duration of the Second World War. It was built to the London Transport Type design and opened in 1947 fitted with a 59 lever Westinghouse 'N' (frame number 203) which was replaced a panel on 26th August 1997.

Close up of the 59 lever Style 'N' lever frame, with part of the track diagram showing in the back ground.

Pictures reproduced by kind permision courtsey of District Dave's Web site.

The 'N' Style lever frame at Woodford is a Westinghouse Style 'N' Power Frame and was mechanically interlocked between levers with electrical lever locking, The frame was formed of 5 x 12 way section which making a total of 59 levers, {5x12}-1 = 59 levers, as the last “lever” space is unavailable.

A clearer view of the track diagram and the lever frame, with the telephone concentrator and computer booking system screen adjacent to the telephone concetrator.

Pictures reproduced by kind permision courtsey of District Dave's Web site.

Diagrams
Attached a railway and signaling track diagram from London Transport Central Line Extention 1946 - 1957. This diagram can be downloaded opened in your browser in Adobe PDF format provided the Adobe browser is loaded, otherwise you will be able to save the file to your computer until such time as you have an Adobe Reader installed to read the file - Adobe reader is available free, just use the Adobe Reader icon below to get your copy.

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Adjacent boxes
South Woodford .