377405 rattles out of Hastings station past the down starter

bracket working the 11.35 Brighton to Ore. This traditional scene of a mechanical box and a wonderful array of semaphores is getting very rare on the network now. When re-signalling takes place it is often stated that the ancient Victorian infrastructure is being swept away (or something similar) being replaced by modern state-of-the-art electronic systems . The issue that I have with this is that the Victorian systems have operated perfectly safely for over a century. One wonders if the new electronic system will be doing the same in a hundred years time?