Is it that it's a junction, or the layout of that particular junction, that prevents the box from being switched out and one of the lines remaining useable when there are not the resources to staff it? Or perhaps this has been sorted by transferring staff from a box where that *is* an option.
Mark
I suspect that you can't switch boxes out on the North Cotswold line - most control one end of a piece of single track.
Ascott-under-Wychwood : controls the country end of the single line from Wolvercote Junction (controlled by Thames Valley) to Charlbury, plus two level crossings, at Ascott and at Bruern.
Moreton-in-Marsh : double track in both directions
Evesham : controls its end of the single line to Norton Junction.
Norton Junction : double track to Shrub Hill, double track to Abbotswood Junction (on the Birmingham - Bristol line, controlled from West Midlands) but single track to Evesham
Shrub Hill : double track to Norton, double track to Tunnel Junction (on the line to Droitwich) but single track through Foregate Street and across the river to Henwick.
Henwick : controls its end of the single track to Shrub Hill (and the other single track to Tunnel Junction), and the adjacent level crossing.
Newland East : controls the adjacent level crossing
Malvern Wells : controls the start of the single track to Ledbury
Ledbury : passing loop between Malvern Wells and Shelwick Junction (for Hereford)
