A scene familiar to many a Spalding resident over the

years but one that has not looked quite like this for some time. Dominating the photograph is the magnificent Spalding No. 1 signal box constructed by the Great Northern in 1921 that originally controlled the station approach, the junctions with the Bourne, Wisbech and March lines and, of course, the level crossing over Winsover Road. Notice the brick base to the box that was constructed during the war as a blast protection measure with the timber base behind it. There is so much railway infrastructure in this that dates from another era for example notice the two gas lamps on the footbridge and the LNER signal box nameplates.