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Not [[File: Kidderminster_Pre_Preservation.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Kiderminster Station circa 1880]]'''Kidderminster Station signal box''' (not to be confused with the current SVR's present day [[Kidderminster signal box]], which now bears its nameplate) was located at the southern end of the Down (to Birmingham) platform on Kidderminster mainline station. It was built to a McKenzie & Holland type 1 design and opened circa 1873.<ref name=SVR131>SVR News 131, "''Signal Box 'Movements'''", Keith Beddoes</ref> On 5 February in that year the GWR had authorised the interlocking of points and signals at Kidderminster, the first mention of such interlocking in the district.<ref>[[Bibliography#Books|Marshall (1989)]] p. 127.</ref>

In 1877-78 a footbridge was built connecting the two platforms. Although its positioning obscured part of the view from the signal box, thus contravening the Board of Trade requirements that "''the signalman should have the best possible view of the railway and be able to see the arms and lights of signals and working of the points''", the situation was allowed to remain unchanged.<ref name=KDAHS>[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2eAFhE-m0yheVp4QUw1cGN3aVk/edit Kidderminster & District Archaeological & Historical Society Building Record of Kidderminster Railway Station signal .]</ref> The picture, dated to around 1880,<ref name=SVR131/> shows the location of the box relative to the new footbridge; the Comberton Road Bridge is just visible in the distance between it. The visibility issue was located at made worse in 1900 by the Western End extension of the Down platform north of the Comberton Road Bridge (to Birminghamthe "Excursion Platform") platform on Kidderminster mainline stationwith its associated signalling. It The signal box was built therefore dismantled brick by brick and rebuilt nearer to a McKenzie & Holland design the running lines.<ref name=KDAHS/> Much of the existing material was retained, although differences included the shape and open by 1882size of the locking room windows, the addition of five courses of facing bricks around the base, two ventilation pipes in the roof for the oil or gas lamps, and a timbered walk-way instead of a trap door covering where the signal wires and point rodding exited the locking room.<ref name=SVR131/> The Station box worked directly to [[Kidderminster Junction signal box | Kidderminster Junction Signal Box]] until 15th July 1973 when it the former was closed and its area of control came under the Junction Box. Its frame, a 30-lever GWR 3-bar vertical tappet frame of 1913, was then transferred to the ex-LNWR box at [[Arley signal box|Arley]]

*[[List of signal boxes#Kidderminster Loop Line | List of signal boxes]] ==References==<references/>