South Wigston, Leicestershire

The image captures a Southern Railway electric multiple unit (EMU) passing a signal box at South Wigston, Leicestershire, in the early 1960s. 

The signal box is a classic elevated timber structure, a common design on British railways.

 
The EMU is a 6-PAN unit, number 3016, operating a service that would have been part of the Southern Region's electrified network. 

The location is identifiable as South Wigston due to similar historical photographs and railway records. 

Signal boxes like this were key to railway operations, controlling points and signals through mechanical lever frames. 

Many of these historic boxes have since been decommissioned as signalling is centralized into modern operating centres.