Barton Street Junction Signal Box, Gloucester
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Barton Street Junction Signal Box, Gloucester by Martin Tester as part of the Geograph project.
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Barton Street Junction Signal Box, Gloucester
Image: © Martin Tester Taken: Unknown
A very restricted area resulted in this very distinctive Midland Railway signal box mounted on a massive gantry spanning the tracks. Immediately beyond it is Barton Street level crossing, & beyond that the junction for the High Orchard branch (to the docks). On the left is what was then All Saints Church, a significant building, see: Image I am standing on Eastgate Station & the approaching train is a single-car DMU that will take the direct line to Stratford-upon-Avon (part of which is now the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway), a service that will cease within a few months with the closure of the line across the Cotswolds to passenger traffic. Eastgate Station closed in December 1975 - a victim of the road lobby that wanted level crossing in the city to be removed. All trains between the Midlands & Bristol now either have to reverse at Central Station or not stop at Gloucester. The site is now an Asda supermarket.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.86169
Longitude
-2.23883