Baschurch signal box

Opened: c1880. Closed: 1999
Baschurch is on the main route between Shrewsbury and Chester, located at a wayside station with small goods yard and level crossing. The latter has been the cause of the survival of the signal box to the present day.
The Beeching cuts were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, 2,363 stations and 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of railway line for closure, 55% of stations and 30% of route miles, with an objective of stemming the large losses being incurred during a period of increasing competition from road transport. Eventually the railway station in Baschurch was closed too.