66526 "Driver Steve Dunn" speeds past Croft box with 6P20 Basford Hall - Mountsorrel empty ballast wagons whilst 66623 "Bill Bolsover" in Bardon blue livery lurks in the sidings with the 10:20 departure to Neasden Charringtons Sdgs - 6M17.

Narborough signal box is a rare survivor, a LNWR type 3 dating from 1875.

Narborough box and level crossing.

Narborough IFS panel was brought into use as part of Stage 1 of the Leicester Resignalling over the weekend 27th - 30th June 1986. Note unusually that it operates semaphore signals - the Up Distant and Down Starter being motor worked.

Croft Sidings is a London & North Western Railway type 4 and dates from 1901.

Croft Sidings - a nocturnal view.

Croft Sidings contained a 30 lever LNWR Tumbler frame.

Croft sidings - the LNWR Fletcher block instruments which remained in use right up until closure for refurbishment.

Croft Sidings track diagram - the layout remined unchanged for virtually the entire life of the box, note the absence of track circuits. Following the Westcad installation Fiskerton Junction is now the only signal box in the East Mids without track circuits.

Croft Sidings was renamed "Croft" as part of the resignalling, here is the "Westcad" installation in the refurbished box.

Hinckley was a LNWR type 4 and was opened in 1894. It was closed with the Croft resignalling on 31st July 2006 and demolished on 8th October.

Hinckley Down Main Home 2 signal, no.28.

The view from Hinckley box - 60063 "James Murray" passes by with 6V92 Corby BSC - Margam empty steel carriers.

Hinckley illuminated track diagram. the box worked TCB to Nuneaton and AB to Croft Sidings or Narborough.

Hinckley lever frame - a 30 lever LNWR tumbler. The VDU in the centre is the train describer to Nuneaton PSb installed when Hinckley became a fringe box following the closure of Nuneaton Midland Junction on 16th February 1992.