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[[File:Kidderminster diagram 25.jpg|1000px]]
From 2020 the box will also control access to the [[Ground Frames at Foley Park|Foley Park ground frame]]. How the signal box diagram will look once the ground frame has been installed:
[[File:Kidderminster signal box diagram 2020 including Foley Park Ground Frame.jpg]]
== Levers and Lever Leads ==
{| class="wikitable"
! style="text-align:left;" | NoNº. !! style="text-align:left;" | Colour !! style="text-align:left;" | Description !! style="text-align:left;" | Lever Sequence
|-
| 1 || Red/Brown || Acceptance Lever from Bewdley south ||
| 2 || Red || Up Main Home || 17 13
|-
| 3 || Red || Up Main to No1 Nº1 Platform Inner Home || 17 35
|-
| 4 || Red || Up Main to No1 Nº1 Platform Calling On || 17 35
|-
| 5 || Red || Up Main to Up loop Home || 29 14 13
|-
| 6 || Red || Up Loop to No2 Nº2 Platform Inner Home || 29 40
|-
| 7 || Red || Up Loop to No2 Nº2 Platform Calling On || 29 40
|-
| 8 || Red || Up Loop to No1 Nº1 Platform Inner Home || 30 29 35
|-
| 9 || Red || Up Loop to No1 Nº1 Platform Calling On || 30 29 35
|-
| 10 || Red || Up Main to Exchange Line Inner Home || 19 17
| 14 || Black || Up Main Facing / Up Loop ||
|-
| 15 || Red || Up Main to Engine Line No1 Nº1 Inner Home (Disc) || 17 37 35
|-
| 16 || Red || Up Main to Exchange Line Calling On || 19 17
| 25 || Blue || FPL For 24A ||
|-
| 26 || Red || No2 Nº2 Platform to Carriage Shed Sidings Starting (Disc) || 24 25
|-
| 27 || Red || Up Loop to No2 Nº2 Engine Line Inner Home (Disc) || 29 42 40
|-
| 28 || Red || Up Loop to No1 Nº1 Engine Line Inner Home (Disc) || 37 30 29 35
|-
| 29 || Blue || FPL for 30B ||
| 33 || Blue || FPL for 30A || Nil or 30 32
|-
| 34 || Yellow || No1 Nº1 Platform to Carriage Shed Sidings Starting (Disc) || 31 33
|-
| 35 || Red || Disc at 37B || 36
| 36 || Blue || FPL for 37B ||
|-
| 37 || Black || No1 Nº1 Platform Facing / No1 Nº1 Engine Line ||
|-
| 38 || Red || Disc for 37A || 33 37
| 41 || Blue || FPL for 42B ||
|-
| 42 || Black || No2 Nº2 Platform Facing / No2 Nº2 Engine Line ||
|-
| 43 || Red || Disc for 42a || 25 42
| 44 || Red || Spare ||
|-
| 45 || Blue /Black || No2 Nº2 Platform / No2 Nº2 Engine Line ||
|-
| 46 || Red || Disc at 45b ||
| 47 || Red || Carriage Works Siding to/from Exchange Line Shunt || 48
|-
| 48 || Red Black || Disc for No. 18 Carriage Works Sidings Derailers || 16 18
|-
| 49 || Blue /Brown || Interlocking Lever with WMSC for DR724 Points ||
|-
| 50 || Red || From Network Rail to Exchange Line Shunt (Slot) || 49
| 51 || Blue || FPL for 52B ||
|-
| 52 || Black || No1 Nº1 Platform / No1 Nº1 Engine Line || 51
|-
| 53 || Red || Disc at 52B ||
| 55 || || SPACE ||
|-
| 56 || Red +White Band || Down Main Outer Advanced Starting ||
|-
| 57 || Red || Down Loop to Down Main Advanced Starting || 14
|-
| 58 || Red || No1 Nº1 Platform to Down Loop Starting || 30 33
|-
| 59 || Red || No2 Nº2 Platform to Down Loop Starting || 25
|-
| 60 || Red || Down Main Advanced Starting ||
| 61 || Red || From Network Rail To Down Main Home (Slot) || 21 49
|-
| 62 || Red || No1 Nº1 Platform to Down Main Starting || 33
|}
==Connection to Network Rail==
Until 2012 Kidderminster Station Signal Box worked to [[Kidderminster Junction signal box]], 'over the fence' and operated by BR, RailTrack and finally Network Rail. The [[Connection to Network Rail | connection between the SVR and national rail]] was somewhat limiting, requiring staff on the track for any movement between railways. This all changed when Kidderminster Junction signal box closed in 2012 (its lever frame was saved for spares by the SVR) and extensive work by Network Rail and SVR S&T technicians installed one of the most comprehensive connections between the national rail network and a private heritage railway in existence, with movements from the SVR onto the Down Main and movements from the Up & Down Mains onto Network Rail being completely locked and signalled movements overseen by the cooperative efforts of the SVR signalman and NR signaller at Saltley. This upgrade also saw the first non-GWR/BR(W) signal installed on the SVR, in the form of a colour light signal reading from the SVR's 'exchange' line onto the national network or into the SVR's [[Carriage Repair Works | North Star Carriage & Wagon Works]]. The colour light signal can be seen beyond [[Kidderminster Footbridge]] in the photograph below.
==Signalling controlled from the box==
==2013 fire==
During the morning of Saturday 3 2 March 2013, the signal box suffered a small fire in the roof at the point where the stove flue passes through the ceiling. The signalman was able to leave the box without injury. A small section of the roof was destroyed, and there was some damage to the telephone system and the domestic wiring caused by the water used by the Fire Brigade, although the signalling equipment was largely unaffected. Kidderminster station was initially closed. Once access to the box was regained, the water was mopped up to prevent it falling into the frame room and its electrics. By 4pm the debris had been cleared and the roof made weather-proof with a plastic sheet supplied by Bewdley C&W Department. Rapid work by the S&T and PW departments then saw normal service resumed by commencement of operations on the following day.
==Open days==
The box is occasionally open for public visits during special events such as the [[Open House Weekend]]. Access is strictly controlled on such occasions as the box is reached by crossing the tracks from the platform.
==See Alsoalso== * [[List of signal boxes]]
==References==