Inside Cogload Signal Box on a very hot and humid

summer afternoon. The signalman, Smithy, is seen posing in front of the levers and block instruments. He was a lovely chap and I spent a very pleasant few hours in the box even if he was rather preoccupied with the number of those tiny little black thunder flies that had invaded! After closure in 1985, the box was split in half and removed a few metres behind its location to the field in which I had camped. It spent a while there before being removed on low-loaders that navigated the canal towpath! It now resides at the Coleford Great Western Railway Museum in the Forest of Dean