User Announcements

We are pleased to announce our third early partner for openSignalBox: Lowdham Railway Heritage! This museum project started as the resignalling of the Nottingham to Newark line came to fruition and Lowdham box was one of four made redundant in 2016. A group of Lowdham residents formed a charity, Lowdham Railway Heritage (LRH) with the aim of moving the signalbox from its original inaccessible location to some spare land at the other end of the station and restoring it as far as possible to how it looked in the mid-1950s. The box has been running successful open days since summer 2021, with the first open day being on the 175th anniversary of the opening of the Nottingham to Lincoln railway in August 1846.

We are pleased to announce our second early partner for openSignalBox - the Knighton Crossing Project! This museum project, under construction in Norway, is a recreation of a level crossing signalbox on the GWR mainline between Didcot and Swindon, set in the early 1950s steam era. It features a new-build 14-lever frame and will make use of telephone audio interactions and permissive and fog working practices. The idea of the Knighton Crossing Project is to allow members of the public to work a highly realistic interactive signal box simulation, showcasing British signalling to Scandinavians!

We are pleased to announce our first partner for bringing openSignalBox to life - Sleaford East reproduction signalbox! This private project by Alastair Larter is a recreation of a busy 24-lever signalbox on the GN & GE Joint Railway as it existed in the 1970s. openSignalBox was started as a result of development work for this signalbox, so it is closely involved with the project.