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This lever frame passed into the collection of the London Transport Museum before its opening in 1980. Intended to operate as an exhibit highlighting the operation of electro-mechanical interlocking, several non-standard modifications were made to it. The diagram was heavily altered to show a single direction branch and station with a diverging junction just beyond it, a layout that has never existed on the Underground for lever frame of this kind. It was also given the pseudonym of York Road which further concealed its original identity. | This lever frame passed into the collection of the London Transport Museum before its opening in 1980. Intended to operate as an exhibit highlighting the operation of electro-mechanical interlocking, several non-standard modifications were made to it. The diagram was heavily altered to show a single direction branch and station with a diverging junction just beyond it, a layout that has never existed on the Underground for lever frame of this kind. It was also given the pseudonym of York Road which further concealed its original identity. | ||
Later publications have wrongly attributed this lever frame to the station of the same name on the Piccadilly line. York Road tube station had closed due to low patronage in 1932 but its signal cabin remained operational until 1964 when the both the lever frame and crossover it controlled | Later publications have wrongly attributed this lever frame to the station of the same name on the Piccadilly line. York Road tube station had closed due to low patronage in 1932 but its signal cabin remained fully operational until 1964 when the both the lever frame and crossover it controlled where removed for disposal. There have also been theories that suggest that the lever frame never saw operational use and was purely built as a demonstrator for Westinghouse Brake & Signalling Company who named the frame after their London headquarters. This has also been debunked since the London offices of Westinghouse were located at York Place not York Road and the high number of spare levers (6 out of 11) suggests operational use as a custom-built demonstrator would never have been built with such excessive redundancy. It is for these reasons that Holborn (Piccadilly) is believed to be the source for the lever frame with its early history of rationalisation. | ||
In August 2021, the lever frame was showcased in the TV documentary series, Secrets of the London Underground. Charlotte Monroe, the final Service Operator to work at Edgware Road signal cabin, made a guest appearance explaining the operation of conventional signalling on the Underground. | In August 2021, the lever frame was showcased in the TV documentary series, Secrets of the London Underground. Charlotte Monroe, the final Service Operator to work at Edgware Road signal cabin, made a guest appearance explaining the operation of conventional signalling on the Underground. |