Brunswick Route Setting Panel

Route setting panel, entry and exit (NX) type, Metrovic. Installed at Brunswick North Signal Box on the Cheshire Lines Committee route from Liverpool Central to Manchester Central on 28 February 1937. Brunswick North Signal Box itself opened in 1878 and closed in 1973.

This was Britain's first route setting panel where the signaller pressed a button at the start and end of the route they wished to set for a train. This made it the first example of an NX panel, which takes its name from the eNtry and eXit buttons used by the signaller. This method of signalling control came to dominate Britain's railways in the second half of the twentieth century, before giving way to computerised automatic route setting and display screens.