Signallers like Jamie Green remain crucial to Shrewsbury, ensuring all trains pass safely through the station without state-of-the-art technology. Workers in the signal box in 1962. Picture ...

Lifelong transport enthusiast Gareth David puts the Shrewsbury signal box at the top of his personal top 20, saying it is the "biggest – and simply the best." He adds: "For the sheer joy of ...

A Tour of Shrewsbury's Severn Bridge Junction signal box (Clip 3 of 3)A Tour of Shrewsbury's Severn Bridge Junction signal box (Clip 3 of 3) ...

Just outside the county town of Shrewsbury, UK, workers pace the elevated halls of Severn Bridge Junction – the largest operational mechanical signal box in the world. Since 1904, it has provided safe ...

So the big moment had come. Maggie had been fascinated by what she'd seen in Shrewsbury's Severn Bridge Junction signal box and it was time for her to have go at changing a signal. However she had ...