Description
Midland Railway signals usually comprised a tapered wooden post, a lower quadrant arm, a round-case lamp (with lampman’s platform), and a spiked finial. After the grouping, the LMS modernised many of these signals by fitting upper quadrant arms and a new lamp (as the lamp moved to the opposite side of the post, the lampman’s platform was redundant, and was usually removed). Many signals also received the ex-LNWR design of post cap, and this revised design was used for both new installations and renewals until the advent of tubular steel posts in the mid-1930s. Some examples are still in use on Network Rail today.
