Salisbury - Milford Signal Box
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Salisbury - Milford Signal Box
Image: © Dave Bevis Taken: 1 Jun 1968
This signal box controlled access from the Salisbury to Romsey railway line into Salisbury's Milford Goods Depot. A history of the goods depot (formerly a passenger station) follows below. Milford Station opened in Jan 1847 as the terminus of line from Eastleigh. The new line from Basingstoke used Milford as a passenger station from May 1857. From May 1859, all passenger trains were diverted to the current Salisbury station off Fisherton Street, but the Milford station was retained as a goods depot. Milford closed as a goods depot on 21 August 1967. Milford Signal Box closed 1 January 1968. For more details, please see pp153 to 157 of H.P.White’s Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain (Vol 2 – Southern England) published by David & Charles in 1964.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.06571
Longitude
-1.781461