EPW058486 ENGLAND (1938). Lord Street Railway Station and the town, Southport, 1938

The signal box opened on the 1st September 1884 and was of Railway Signal Company design. It had a brick base and wooden upper portion and contained a 42 lever Railway Signal Company lever frame. The Railway Signal Company, located in Fazakerley, supplied all the signal boxes and signalling equipment for the opening of the line only, all subsequent signalling equipment was supplied by the Cheshire Lines Railway, from their Warrington workshops, until 1937. At some stage Lord Street Station Signal Box received a replacement 42 lever Cheshire Lines lever frame. The signal box closed on the 25th September 1949 and was replaced by a short-lived LMS type 11c signal box.

Regal Picture House - may be under construction.

Ribble Bus Station buses entered from cab road after railway station closed and exit via Winter Gardens Terrace. The road at right angles to south end of train shed on near side of station.

Actually former L + Y Loco shed.

Became BR Shed 27C, closed 1966 became a museum Steamport Southport for a number of years until closure and move of the museum to Preston Riverside.