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Signal gantry ex-Radyr in store for eventual installation
[[File: Kidderminster_Signal_Gantry_20160605.jpg |thumb|300px|right| Kidderminster Signal Gantry]]
All signals at Kidderminster excepting the colour light signal (see above) are of late GWR/BR(W) steel tubular post and enamel arm design. The large gantry originates from Taunton East, although the layout of signals upon it is quite different to how it was when it was there. Its re-erection at Kidderminster began in the spring of 1987; the foundations on which it sits required 20 tons of concrete.<ref>SVR News 83</ref> Installation of signal wiring took place over the summer. The connections as far as the signal gantry were commissioned along with the signal box on 21 November 1987.<ref name = "SVRSig" />
A further signal gantry, ex-Radyr, is in storage for the platform end to replace the current collection of planted posts. It is intended this will follow the planned eventual track slewing in association with an extension of the platform<ref>Adrian Hassell</ref>.
As part of the 2012 resignalling of the network connection, the 'exchange line' (see diagram) was upgraded from a siding to a running line, requiring derailers to be installed on the three siding roads leading out of the North Star Carriage & Wagon Works, as there was insufficient space for a trap point. These are worked from a lever in the box, possibly the only example of worked derailers installed on a heritage railway. There are also levers to provide a 'slot' (release) to the Network Rail signaller to allow trains to proceed from Network Rail onto the SVR.
