Madeley Junction is a railway junction situated between Shifnal

Shifnal railway station

Shifnal railway station is a station on the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line serving the town of Shifnal in Shropshire, England. Trains are about hourly off-peak....

 and Telford Central

Telford Central railway station

Telford Central railway station serves the new town of Telford, England. It is situated close to the town centre, the main commercial district of the town...

 on the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line

Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line

The Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line is the railway line from Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury via Wellington; it was originally built by the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway. The line is double track throughout, with rarely used relief sidings at Cosford and 4 tracks through Wellington station...

 in Shropshire

Shropshire

Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...

, England.

The junction is controlled from Madeley Junction Signal Box, located in the vee of the junction where the line from Wolverhampton diverges south towards Lightmoor

Lightmoor junction

Lightmoor Junction was a railway junction situated between Ironbridge Power Station at Buildwas and Madeley Junction in Shropshire, England.It was from Lightmoor Junction that a line once ran towards Wellington via Doseley and Horsehay...

 and west towards Telford Central. A resignalling scheme saw its area of control extended on 16 December 2002 to cover Wellington, and again on 23 October 2006 with the abolition of Cosford, Codsall and Lightmoor Junction Signal Boxes. This scheme saw the replacement of the traditional mechanical lever frame

Lever frame

Mechanical railway signalling installations rely on lever frames for their operation to interlock the signals and points to allow the safe operation of trains in the area the signals control...

 with a WestCAD VDU control system.

In 2011 Network Rail

Network Rail

Network Rail is the government-created owner and operator of most of the rail infrastructure in Great Britain .; it is not responsible for railway infrastructure in Northern Ireland...

put forward proposals to close the signal box and transfer control of its lines to the West Midlands Signalling Centre. Closure has been confirmed as November 2012.