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    UFFINGTON SIGNAL BOX – A MIDLAND SURVIVOR

    Nov 18, 2021 2 minutes
    VISITED BY PETER BUTLER

    The spring 1988 edition of The Wyvern contained an article in which the authors had compiled a list of surviving Midland Railway (MR) signal boxes. In summer 1986 there had been 110, but by the end of 1987 the total was 83. These were the boxes still in operation on BR.

    I have no figures for the end of 2020 but suspect many have

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