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A warm mid-summer evening - and a Society visit to Shrewsbury's two main signal boxes, Crewe Junction and the famed Severn Bridge Junction - great fun! Shrewsbury was noted for its mechanical signalling, by the mid-80s an increasingly rare survival. Amazingly, it remains mechanically signalled (there are one or two colour-light signals), though the infrastructure has been rationalised a little over the years.
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; "Crewe Junction box diagram")
; "Severn Bridge Junction box diagram")
; "Crewe Junction levers")
; "Crewe Junction - signalman's eye view")
; "Crewe Junction box interior")
; "47 508 arrives with a Cardiff - Crewe train")
; "108 and 101 units arrive at Shrewsbury")
; "WMPTE suburban units arrive at Shrewsbury")
; "The new order - cl. 150 arrives at Shrewsbury from the south")
; "Euston - Shrewsbury arrival")
; "Station from Severn Bridge Junction")
; "Cl 33 arrives on a Cardiff - Manchester working")
; "56 066 stands with a cement train")