LMS Jubilee Class 4-6-0 No. 45596 'Bahamas', displaying the specially produced 'Jubilee Buxton Spa Express' headboard, powers past the 'down-home (CH5) semaphore signal and signal-box, on its approach to Chapel-en-le-Frith Station, heading the return leg (to Barrow Hill) of the Railway Touring Company's charter from Buxton to West Ealing on 4th June 2022. The BR London Midland Region type 15 signal box, with a total of four semaphores still under the control of its 20-lever frame, was constructed and opened in March 1957 after the previous one was demolished by a runaway freight train in February of that year.
Mike Brook       

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