Information for record number MWA7416:
Site of Willoughby Signal Box

Summary The site of a railway signal box at Willoughby. It was in use from the Imperial period onwards. The signal box was situated 500m south east of Willoughby.
What Is It?  
Type: Signal Box, Railway
Period: Imperial - Modern (1751 AD - 2050 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Willoughby
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 52 66
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Picture(s) attached

  
Description

  
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1 Timber (?) signal box, located on the east side of the line, to the south of Braunston and Willoughby Station.
2 Photograph taken in 1928 (in the distance - no detail).
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Map
Title: 2nd edition 1906
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1906
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Photograph
Title: Great Central Memories
Author/originator: Healy J M C
Date: 1987
Page Number: 101
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Images:  
Willoughby railway signal box
Copyright: Warwickshire County Council
Date: 1910s
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period Modern The Modern Period, about 1915 AD to the present (the 20th and 21st centuries AD)

In recent years archaeologists have realised the importance of recording modern sites. They do this so that in the future people will be able to look at the remains to help them understand the events to which they are related.
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period Imperial 1751 AD to 1914 AD (end of the 18th century AD to the beginning of the 20th century AD)

This period comes after the Post Medieval period and before the modern period and starts with beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 1750. It includes the second part of the Hannoverian period (1714 – 1836) and the Victorian period (1837 – 1901). The Imperial period ends with the start of the First World War in 1914.
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period modern About 1915 AD to the present (the 20th and 21st centuries AD)

In recent years archaeologists have realised the importance of recording modern sites. They do this so that in the future people will be able to look at the remains to help them understand the events to which they are related.
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monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument RAILWAY SIGNAL * A structure with semaphore arms and/or coloured lights used as a means of warning on railway systems. back
monument SIGNAL BOX * A building on a railway system housing levers used to regulate trains on the tracks using signals and to change the points to enable a train to transfer from one track to another. back
monument RAILWAY * A line or track consisting of iron or steel rails, on which passenger carriages or goods wagons are moved, usually by a locomotive engine. back

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