page_title: Truro railway station
section_title: Signalling
hierarchical_section_title: Truro railway station / History / Signalling
caption_attribution_description: British English: ex GWR type 7A Truro signal box, formerly named Truro East.
context_page_description: Truro railway station serves the city of Truro, Cornwall, England. The station is 301 miles from London Paddington via Bristol Temple Meads. It is situated on the Cornish Main Line and is the junction for the Maritime Line to Falmouth Docks.
  The station is managed by Great Western Railway, which serves the station alongside CrossCountry.
context_section_description: Signal boxes had been built to control the complex layout at Truro by 1880. These were replaced by a new Truro West signal box in 1897 and a new Truro East in 1899.  These were both Great Western Railway Type 7A signal boxes.  The West box, which was situated on the north side of the line near the entrance to the engine shed, was closed on 7 November 1971 when the East box, situated on the same side of the line just east of the level crossing, was renamed as just "Truro".
  The adjacent signal boxes are at Par railway station to the east, and at Roskear Junction, Camborne, to the west.  The Falmouth branch is operated under authority from tokens which are kept in interlocked machines on platform 3 and at Falmouth Docks railway station.  In May 2009 the branch was resignalled and a loop installed at Penryn which is controlled from the signal box at Truro. At the same time a new signal (number TR26) was placed at the west end of the eastbound platform to allow trains to reverse back to Penzance or Falmouth without shunting across to another platform.
caption: Truro signal box
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