Style 'L' Power Frames

The following three tables below shows the location of of all Westinghouse Style 'L' Power Frames that were installed in the Great Britain. Westinghouse Brake & Saxby Signal Co Ltd shipped a total of 109 Style 'L' all over the world. Allowing for WB&SCo installation's and other British Rail installations the UK's allocation of Style 'L' Power Lever frames amounted to 45 lever frames out of 157 manufactured for world-wide use.

The first table in Green, shows all the locations of all frames supplied and installed by Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. The second table in Blue, shows all the location of all the frames constructed by Railways in the UK and not shipped direct from WB&S Co. The third table shows a list of Frames still in existence.

Westinghouse Supplied & Installed Style 'L' Power Lever Frames used in the UK
Signal Box Name	Railway	Order Date	Capacity	Point Levers	Signal Levers	Special Levers	Spare Levers	Date in use	Date out of use
North Kent East Junction	Southern Railway	Jan 1929	83	24	51	1	7	1st December 1929	15th April 1976
Glasgow St Enoch	L.M.S Railway	Sep 1929	203	79	97	10	17	14th May 1933	26th November 1967
Wembley Park	Metropolitan Railway	Oct 1930	95/59	30	45	1	14	3rd January 1932	26th June 1954
Brighton	Southern Railway	Jan 1932	225	65	139	2	19	16th October 1932	30th March 1985
Cardiff East	G.W. Railway	Jul 1932	155	21	102	-	31	28th May 1933	27th March 1966
Cardiff West	G.W. Railway	Sep 1932	334	21	102	-	31	7th January 1934	27th March 1966
Waterloo	Southern Railway	Feb 1935	309	77	203	2	27	18th October 1936	February 5th 1984
Clapham Junction A	Southern Railway	May 1935	103	29	66	-	8	17th May 1936	25th May 1990
West London Junction	Southern Railway	May 1935	59	16	32	-	11	17th May 1936	25th May 1990
Woking	Southern Railway	Sep 1935	131	38	73	-	20	27th July 1936	22nd Aug 1997
Darlington South	L.N.E. Railway	Jun 1937	155	47	83	20	5	6th May 1939	10th May 1991
Battersea Park	Southern Railway	Dec 1937	31	7	21	-	3	16th October 1938	7th October 1979
Victoria Central	Southern Railway	Dec 1937	225	51	148	2	24	4th June 1939	16th March 1980
'Standby' Frame	Southern Railway	Dec 1938	143	48	95	-	-	stored by SR for use in the event of WW2 damage on SR
Crewe South	L.M.S Railway	Mar 1939	227	72	127	8	7	29th September 1940	6th June 1985
Crewe North	L.M.S Railway	Mar 1939	214	65	120	7	12	29th March 1940	19th July 1985
'Standby' Frame	L.M.S Railway	Mar 1939	227	96	120	11	-	stored by SR for use in the event of WW2 damage at Crewe
Preston North	L.M.S Railway	Apr 1939	227	58	135	8	12	Never installed due to WW2, Frame installed at Euston Station instead
Preston South	L.M.S Railway	Apr 1939	227	54	143	11	9	Never installed due to WW2
Liverpool Lime Street	L.M.S Railway	Jan 1940	95	31	58	-	6	25th January 1948	still in use 2005
Blackfriars Junction	Southern Railway	Apr 1941	119	28	73	-	18	11th August 1946	14th February 1982
Bricklayers Arms Junction	BR Southern	Mar 1948	55	15	31	2	7	8th October 1950	20th July 1975
Forest Hill	BR Southern	Mar 1948	47	11	18	1	7	8th October 1950	15th June 1969
Clapham Junction 'B'	BR Southern	Oct 1948	103	25	65	2	11	12th October 1952	28th November 1980
Balham	BR Southern	Oct 1949	43	12	27	-	4	12th October 1952	7th June 1981
Streatham Junction	BR Southern	Oct 1949	79	20	43	4	12	12th October 1952	28th June 1981
Norwood Junction	BR Southern	Mar 1952	107	26	64	3	14	21st March 1954	28th April 1984
Gloucester Road Junction	BR Southern	Mar 1952	131	42	72	1	16	21st March 1954	7thApril 1984
South Croydon	BR Southern	May 1953	31	7	18	-	6	8th May 1955	1st April 1984
Purley	BR Southern	May 1953	71	20	40	-	11	8th May 1955	14th January 1984
East Croydon	BR Southern	May 1953	103	27	65	-	11	8th May 1955	April 7th 1984
Longmoor Camp	MOD	Apr 1955	7	1	2	-	-
Maidstone East	BR Southern	Jan 1961	47	12	25	2	8	8th April 1962	box is still open June 2005

Style 'L' Frames exported abroad by WB&S
Signal Box Name	Railway	Order Date	Capacity	Point Levers	Signal Levers	Special Levers	Spare Levers	Date in use	Date out of use
Dal Josafat	South Africa	?	35			-		1960	still in use 2006
India	South Africa	?	71			-		1960	still in use 2006
Germinston West	South Africa	?	119			-		1960	still in use 2006

Style 'L' Frames constructed / installed by railways in UK, not directly from WB&S
Signal Box Name	Railway	Parts From	Capacity	Point Levers	Signal Levers	Special Levers	Spare Levers	Date in use	Date out of use
Blackfriars Junction	Southern Railway	SR standby frame	23	28	73	-	18	2nd June 1941	11th Aug 1946
Hither Green A	Southern Railway	SR standby frame	23	3	16	-	4	1946	4th Feb 1962
Portsmouth Harbour	Southern Railway	SR standby frame	47	8	16	-	23	1st Jun 1946	21st Apr 1968
New Cross Gate	BR Southern	SR standby frame	71	21	34	1	12	8th Oct 1950	20th July 1975
Euston	BR London Midland	Preston North frame	227					5th Oct 1952	27th Sep 1965
Cannon Street temp	BR Southern	LMS standby frame (note1)	47					5th May 1957	15th Dec 1957
Cannon Street	BR Southern	SR standby frame	167	38	78	6	45	15th Dec 1957	16th Apr 1976
Shepherds Lane	BR Southern	SR standby frame	23	4	12	2	5	8th March 1959	29th Nov 1981
Clapham Signalling School	BR Southern	ex Portsmouth Harbour.	47	8	16	-	23	1972	1987
Churston	TS	ex part North Kent East	11	2	7	1	1	1979	1991
Bedford North	BR London Midland	LMS standby frame (note1)	83					26th Nov 1978	2nd Nov 1980
Northampton No.3	BR London Midland	LMS standby frame (note1)	84					1st Nov 1981	28th Jul 1991
Note 1. Cannon Street, Bedford North and Northampton 3 are shown as being an LMS standby, in fact these are all the same frame and were the LMS standby frame which the LMR lent to the SR when Cannon Street burnt down on the condition that when finished with it would be returned.

Surviving Westinghouse Style 'L' Power Lever Frames
Signal Box Name	Railway	Parts From	Capacity	Point Levers	Signal Levers	Special Levers	Spare Levers	Date in use
Crewe North	Crewe Heritage Centre	Crewe North	214	65	120	7	12	Open for demonstrations, part of Crew Heritage centre museum
Liverpool Lime Street	Network Rail	original frame	95	31	58	-	6	still in use October 06
Maidstone East	Network Rail	original frame	47	12	25	2	8	still in use October 06
Woking	Network Rail	original frame	131	38	73	-	20	closed grade 2 listed building ?
Hardwick Central	Great Cockrow Railway	Crewe South Junction	23
Everglades Junction	Great Cockrow Railway	South Croydon {complete}	31
Maryloo Signal Box	Bekenscot Model Village	Purley part only	23
Lakeside	Swanley New Barn Railway	Gloucester Road Junction	35	8	15
Hampton Court Junction	Malden DSME	North Kent East part	35	14	17	2	2	L Frame
Hampton Court Junction	Malden DSME	White City	48	4	8	-	-	N Frame
Mole Junction	Surrey Light Railway	Battersea Park	31					closed - moved to Needham
Needham	Stevington and Turvey Light Railway	Battersea Park	31					this line is NOT open to the public.
Kingsmere East	Moors Valley Railway	Gloucester Road Junction	12	3	2	0	7
Ely Dock Junction	Private	Crewe South part of	48					more details to follow
Orchard Road Junction	Isle of Wight Railway	possibly ex Clapham Signalling School	11	1	4	0	6
Kinscote	Bluebell Railway	part of Calpham Junction 'B'	48	9	24	2	1
Porthmadog	Ffestiniog Railway	part of Darlington South signal box	12	3	8	1	-
Ridgeway Park	Chingford Model Engineering Society		48