EPW056171 ENGLAND (1937). The Tooting Bec Lido, Tooting Bec Common, 1937

Signals for the Down Main (to the left) and the Down Local (to the right) on the approach to Streatham Common Junction to the south of Tooting Bec Road bridge.

Signals for the Down Main (to the left) and the Down Local (to the right) on the approach to Streatham Common Junction to the south of Tooting Bec Road bridge.

Up Main signal (in the off position) on the wrong side of the line for better sighting through Tooting Bec Road bridge.

Up Local signal

Signalman's allotment? Not that a signalman at this box would have had time to do his allotment between trains as was the case at some locations!

Intermediate signal box. These were plentiful on the pre-colour light signal railway. They divided the distance between main signal boxes, so allowing an increase in line capacity with trains running closer together through shorter block sections. When traffic was low they were often 'switched out', their signals being left off (line clear). Colour light signals could be controlled from much further away (or indeed automatically) so the need for these boxes disappeared, the spacing of the signals rather than the spacing of the signal boxes now controlling line capacity.

The Battersea Grammar School, now the Streatham and Clapham High School (Girls Independent).

Bedford Hill

Tooting Bec Road