Droitwich Spa Junction is a railway junction located 250 metres (800 ft) north-east of Droitwich Spa railway station

Droitwich Spa railway station

Droitwich Spa railway station serves the town of Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire. It is located just to the south-west of Droitwich Spa Junction of the Worcester to Leamington Spa Line and the Worcester to Birmingham New Street Line...

, in the town of Droitwich Spa

Droitwich Spa

Droitwich Spa is a town in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe.The town is situated on massive deposits of salt, and salt has been extracted there since ancient times. The natural Droitwich brine contains 2½ lbs...

, Worcestershire

Worcestershire

Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

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The junction sees the Birmingham to Worcester via Bromsgrove Line

Birmingham to Worcester via Bromsgrove Line

The Birmingham-Worcester via Bromsgrove Line is a railway route in the West Midlands of Great Britain. It connects Birmingham to Worcester. The most notable feature on the line is the Lickey Incline, between and .The line serves the following places:...

 branch off from the main line - the Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line

Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line

The Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line is a commuter railway line from Birmingham Snow Hill to Worcester via Stourbridge and Kidderminster. It is part of the Snow Hill Lines, with trains operated by London Midland and Chiltern Railways using by and diesel units...

. Part of this line is a surviving section of the Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton Line.

Droitwich Spa signal box

Signal box

On a rail transport system, signalling control is the process by which control is exercised over train movements by way of railway signals and block systems to ensure that trains operate safely, over the correct route and to the proper timetable...

 controls the junction and is located between the diverging lines. The whole of the junction is controlled by semaphore signals from the British Rail

British Rail

British Railways , which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages...

 Western Region

Western Region of British Railways

The Western Region was a region of British Railways from 1948. The region ceased to be an operating unit in its own right in the 1980s and was wound up at the end of 1992...

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