Below you will find some signalling drawings of various parts of the railway. These have been scanned in and cleaned up from originals kindly provided by Paul Turlington. Click on the images for a higher res image in a new window.

Swithland Sidings. The original Great Central Scheme is in blue with the later LNER scheme in black.
 
A more detailed view of the LNER scheme at Swithland Sidings.
 
LNER proposals for the resignalling of Rothley. This scheme would have directly adjoined that shewn above for Swithland.
 
A BR London Midland Region track survey of a sadly diminished Swithland Sidings.
 
An interesting document showing the short lived Aylestone Cabin which broke up the long block section between Leicester Goods South and Whetstone. There are also details of the automatic 3 position semaphore scheme which replaced it.

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