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©  Brian Moseley, Plymouth
Webpage created: May 31, 2018
Webpage updated: May 03, 2019

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RAILWAYS IN OLD DEVONPORT  |  LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY
MAIN LINE, LYDFORD STATION TO FRIARY STATION

SAINT BUDEAUX VICTORIA ROAD SIGNAL BOX

Saint Budeaux Signal Box, at 227 miles 10 chains from London Waterloo Station, was opened by the London and South Western Railway Company on May 12th 1890, along with their new route, created for them by the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway Company, from Lydford Station via Tavistock Station and Bere Alston Station.  The Box originally had 18 levers.

The Box sustained damage during the Second World War and was rebuilt with a flat roof.

On and as from march 2nd 1941 the frame was extended to 35 levers when a link was reinstated between the Southern Railway  and Great Western Railway at Saint Budeaux.

Following the nationalization of the British railway network on January 1st 1948, both the Station and the Signal Box were renamed Saint Budeaux Victoria Road on and as from September 26th 1949, to distinguish them from the Western Region's Saint Budeaux Ferry Road Station.

In 1957, when Saint Budeaux Victoria Road Signal Box was 4 miles 131 yards from Bere Ferrers Signals Box, the Box was open on weekdays only between 6am and 10pm, otherwise, including on Sundays, the section was from Bere Alston Signal Box to Devonport King's Road Signal Box.

Saint Budeaux Victoria Road Signal Box was closed on and as from July 25th 1965.

  With grateful acknowledgement to the late Mr Laurence 'Larry' William Crosier (1929-2010) of the Great Western Railway Company (1943-1947);
British Railways (1948-c1994); the Plymouth Railway Circle, the Lee Moor Tramway Preservation Society, and the Signalling Record Society.