Westinghouse Brake & Saxby Signal Co. Ltd. miniature power lever frames and their signal boxes

Woking signal box miniature power lever frame taken 1990

Westinghouse Signal Limited Chippenham England lever frame badge or emblem

This web site provides information on signal boxes that used Westinghouse miniature power lever frames British Railways, London Transport, and their predecessors all used these lever frames, as well as overseas railway companies from 1910 - 1960. A few are still in use.

British Railways mostly preferred the all electric Style 'L' miniature lever frames, whilst London Transport preferred the electro mechanical Style 'N' miniature lever frames version

Historical information on signal boxes that used the earlier Style 'B' & 'K' frames is available, these frames were an important development of the Style 'L' & 'N' frames. Later frame development is also covered in the Style 'M2' & 'V' frames as used by London Transport.

Above: The interior of Clapham Junction 'A' signal box, this was a Westinghouse 'L' frame installation, the day shots were taken on 21st June 1988, the night shots on 6th March 1989. These are reproduced by kind permission of © David A Ingham - more details about Clapham Junction 'A' signal box is contained in 'Style 'L' lever frame Installed by WBS' Contents menu box.

In 1935 Westinghouse Brake & Saxby Signal Co. Ltd, dropped the 'Saxby' from their title, and this became Westinghouse Brake & Signal Co. Ltd.

Navigating the web site
Signal box names are listed by the Style menus on the left.
Signalbox names list (above) provides is a single page with all the signal box names
Updatelog above lists updates as they happen.
Miscellaneous signal boxes of interest lists 11 other Non Westinghouse power lever frame signal boxes.
Miscellaneous other information contains signals, relays, track circuits etc.

Acknowledgements
I would like to record my thanks to John Tilly, David Inghams, John Cready, Henry Davidson, Graham Floyd, & John Francis, Neil Brady and Owen Smithers for all their help and allowing use of their photographs. I would recommend John Francis book, 'Westinghouse - The style 'L' Power frame' by JD Francis ISBN 09514636 first published in 1989, and still available from John. I would also like to thank John Francis for permission to use material from his book and encouragement in producing this information.

Photographs copyright remains with the person who took them, you should contact them if you wish to use their pictures. If no contact address is given on the page, please contact the webmaster in the first instance.

John Hinson's signal box web site comes highly recommended, located at www.signalbox.org

The Signalling Record Society web site is also recommended for research, located at www.s-r-s.org.uk
I would like to thank the Signalling Record Society for permission to reproduce signalling notices and track plans where they were available. Each plan is separately acknowledged.

This site is substantially complete and feedback is welcomed, as are any corrections or information related to these signal boxes and their lever frames.