Railway Herald
Bewdley North, like Highley and Bewdley South on the SVR, boasts a lever frame installed long before the line's preservation. It is a 37 lever GWR 3-bar horizontal tappet frame with 5" centres between the levers, meaning the frame is noticeably longer than that at Bewdley South despite having only three more levers. With the exception of the distant levers, which are painted yellow in accordance with practice since the late 1920s, The signal box is the only place in the world still utilising 'pegging' (i.e. capable of giving a line clear to the box in rear), on 11th September 2018.
Podge
