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the signalling to the west of Taunton station! On the platform end is the three doll bracket carrying the down home arms at different heights indicating their relative importance. Beyond the box, in the distance, is the amazing gantry housing the inner homes and down starters. The track layout and signalling dates from the early 1930s when the GWR was making strenuous efforts to improve timings for their fast express trains to the West of England raising line speeds through bottleneck stations such as Taunton. The box and semaphores stayed in use for another six years from when this photograph was taken being unceremoniously wiped away in May 1986. Notice my Ferguson 3286 radio cassette recorder on the platform to the extreme left. As it transpired, this was to be its last trip out as it was about to be replaced by a new Sony TC525 cassette recorder that I had been frantically saving for over a number of months.