Melton Station signal box

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Melton Mowbray signal Box

Melton Station signal box

Melton station signal box in 2009

Melton Station signal box is at the Leicester end of Melton Mowbray station on the line from Syston Junction to Peterborough.

The top of the box is larger than its base and over hangs at the front. It has had new windows, which do little for the box.

Melton station signal box has had new steel steps fitted.

Melton station signal box in 2003

This box is still in use in 2021. This signal box like all the other boxes on Peterborough to Leicester railway line was to have closed around 2017.

Melton Mowbray station is on the line from Syston Junction to Peterborough. Most passenger trains are class 170 or 158 units from Birmingham via Leicester to Peterborough March Ely and Cambridge and to Stanstead airport. Container trains and stone hoppers and Ballast are the main freight trains.

**Melton Mowbray Railway Station**
1	Cross Country class 170520 and 17107 + EMT class 222 104 + GBRf class 66754
2	THE NIGEL DOBBING MEMORIAL TRAIN Merchant Navy Class 35018 British India Line in 2019
3	GWR 0-6-0T no 9600 & GWR Castle Class 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe in 2017
4	GWR class 57XX pannier tank locomotives 9600 and 7752 (LT94) in 2012
5	GWR 4953 Pitchford Hall into Meton Mowbray station in 2009
	Melton Mowbray 4-6-0 no 5690 Leander 5MT & 4-6-0 45305 in 2005
6	GWR Hall Class 4-6-0 no 4965 Rood Ashton Hall in 2003
7	BR days at Melton Mowbray
8	Melton station signal box this page

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