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A signal box at [[Bewdley]], working to [[Bewdley North signal box|Bewdley North]] and [[Kidderminster signal box|Kidderminster]]. Bewdley South signal box has interesting arrangements in that it works to Bewdley North by Absolute Block on the main line (platforms 1 & 2), by direction levers under [[ETT]] Regulations on the Back Road (platform 3) with the Rock Siding and Down Yard operated as through sidings. Operation to Kidderminster is via [[Acceptance Lever]].
The box passed almost immediately from British Rail's care into the hands of the SVR, and coupled with the only minor alterations the track layout it controls has undergone, it is one of the most 'original' signal boxes in preservation, retaining its 1909 lever frame, pre-preservation block shelf and rear wall furniture, including a token instrument cupboard (one of the originals working either to Stourport, Kidderminster or Bewdley North via the Back Road) and cupboards, phone board and train register desk, complete with curve worn into it by generations of signalmen leaning against it! The box also contains a table, box stool, and short bench which possibly date to pre-preservation days. Two armchairs and a GWR table chair ex-Gloucester S&T offices provided in 1993 complete the furnishings.
The box won a National Railway Heritage Award, the Westinghouse Signaling Award, in 2007. <ref>[http://nrha.org.uk/winners-2007/ http://nrha.org.uk]</ref>
:M: Signal arm repeater for signal 30 (Up Starting)
:N: Signal arm repeater for signal 33 (Up Main Distant)
With the exception of B, the block shelf equipment in Bewdley South is all of BR(W) design, meaning the signalling in the box largely represents a 1950s/60s scene (though quite different to Bewdley South in that period due to post-preservation alterations).
== Levers and Lever Leads ==
