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Rugby Power Signal Box (PSB) opened in 1964. It is located east of the station, on the south (Down) side of the railway. The whole station area, together with part of the WCML stretching as far south as Castlethorpe , was controlled from this new box.
Brandon and Wolston railway station was a railway station serving the villages of Brandon and Wolston in the English county of Warwickshire. The original Brandon station was built by the London and Birmingham Railway and was the only one between Coventry and Rugby. It was replaced by a new station nearby, Brandon and Wolston, in 1879. [2]
Rugby Radio Station was a large British government radio transmission facility just east of the Hillmorton area of the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England. The site straddled the A5 trunk road, with most of it in Warwickshire, and part on the other side of the A5 in Northamptonshire. First opened in 1926, at its height in the 1950s it was ...
When British Rail was created from the Big Four private railway companies [16] [17] under the Transport Act 1947, [18] they began to install power signal boxes (PSB) at strategic locations such as Euston, Crewe, Doncaster, Rugby and Carlisle. [19]
Former Rugby Power Signal Box 1 Formerly controlled Hunsbury Hill (exclusive) to Hillmorton Junction (exclusive) via Northampton. (The WestCAD controlled the original Solid State Interlocking.) Control transferred to Rugby SCC on 3 June 2012 No WestCAD Rugby ROC 1 Stafford Workstation: Penkridge / Milford & Brockton - Basford Hall (exclusive) Yes
The station closed to passengers on 16 September 1957 and for goods on 20 February 1961. There was a signal box which was removed when Rugby Power Signal Box was opened in 1964. The station buildings, platforms and sidings have disappeared, though the entrance road is still present with a barrow crossing which leads to nowhere.
Rugby Parkway railway station, a proposed new station to be built on the edge of Rugby, Warwickshire; Rugby Radio Station, a radio transmission station in Hillmorton, Warwickshire; Rugby Road Halt, a former railway halt in London, England. Rugby station (North Dakota), an Amtrak station in Rugby, North Dakota, US; Rugby station (Boston), a ...
The station buildings were demolished after closure, but the platform still exists and is open to the public: The station site, and 4.5 miles of the former Great Central Railway trackbed through Rugby, are now owned by Rugby Borough Council, who bought them in 1970 for £5,500. The trackbed runs mostly through cuttings, and it is now used as a ...