Welcome to St Albans Signal Box - Garden Tour

Our chairman provides a tour of our railway garden, signals and signs. Located in the car-park outside platform four at St Albans Station and opened in 2009 after a six year rescue and renovation effort by local residents, the signal box has provided a free visitor attraction of interest to railway, heritage enthusiasts and families with all the generations. Everything from technical detail on how railways are run to the garden were toddlers can safely watch the trains fly by or chase Thomas the Tank Engine up and down the garden path. Teas, souvenirs, memberships and donations are what keeps us going.

The garden has signals and a point that visitors can operate as well as simulations of how colour light signals are used in the modern railway. There are also replica telegraph lines and signage from the victorian to the modern era.