Remarkable survivor number 1.....
This is as near as I could get to the 1899 Midland Railway signal box at Neasden Junction and so a view through the trees and the palisade fencing will have to suffice. The box is still manned - controls, semaphores and with the route still operating as absolute block. The box looks somewhat different to when I last saw it way back in 1979, see.....
https://www.ontheupfast.com/v/photos/21936chg/27444280604/neasden-junction-signal-box-tq213850 Then it appeared to be sinking into the embankment but has since been rescued and stabilised. The toilet extension and the inevitable galvanised steps have been added to the box. However, despite all the plasticisation of the structure, it still retains just one of its original finials as seen in my visit some forty years ago and could that be the same wooden nameboard?
