Electrical control panel display board

Electrical control panel display board with meters for line current, voltage and speed, with overload indicator. Part of model railway layout, gauge 1, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Signalling School, built 1912, by L&YR and Bassett-Lowke Ltd, with associated equipment.

This display board was formerly built into a unit for controlling trains on the layout using the third rail system to supply power to the model trains. The associated controllers were taken from Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway electric multiple units which operated between Manchester, Bury and Holcombe Brook and manufactured by Dick Kerr. The display board was likely separated from the rest of the control panel (see 1995-7856/78) when the system for powering the layout was changed in the 1980s.