Image 1. Wootton Bassett Incline signal box (BR, 1952)
1. Wootton Bassett Incline signal box (BR, 1952)
1. Wootton Bassett Incline signal box (BR, 1952) Over the years I must have passed this rather sorry looking signal box countless times whilst travelling up and down the GWML but I never spotted it until exactly a month ago today when travelling back from Bath to Didcot. As we were now heading towards Somerset (sort of passing close by on the M4) I persuaded my wife to allow me to take us off route very slightly so I could take a photograph. Once named Wootton Bassett Incline signal box it was a block post between Wootton Bassett West and Dauntsey boxes but only had a ridiculously short working life. It was built by British Railways, opening in 1952 but closing just ten years later. The SRS website shows that the box also controlled an up and a down refuge siding. Remarkably, it is still standing and even more so that it survived the electrification process evidence of which can be seen in the foreground. Keywords: Wootton Bassett Incline signal box British Railways 1952
1. Wootton Bassett Incline signal box (BR, 1952) Over the years I must have passed this rather sorry looking signal box countless times whilst travelling up and down the GWML but I never spotted it until exactly a month ago today when travelling back from Bath to Didcot. As we were now heading towards Somerset (sort of passing close by on the M4) I persuaded my wife to allow me to take us off route very slightly so I could take a photograph. Once named Wootton Bassett Incline signal box it was a block post between Wootton Bassett West and Dauntsey boxes but only had a ridiculously short working life. It was built by British Railways, opening in 1952 but closing just ten years later. The SRS website shows that the box also controlled an up and a down refuge siding. Remarkably, it is still standing and even more so that it survived the electrification process evidence of which can be seen in the foreground. Keywords: Wootton Bassett Incline signal box British Railways 1952


Over the years I must have passed this rather sorry

looking signal box countless times whilst travelling up and down the GWML but I never spotted it until exactly a month ago today when travelling back from Bath to Didcot. As we were now heading towards Somerset (sort of passing close by on the M4) I persuaded my wife to allow me to take us off route very slightly so I could take a photograph. Once named Wootton Bassett Incline signal box it was a block post between Wootton Bassett West and Dauntsey boxes but only had a ridiculously short working life. It was built by British Railways, opening in 1952 but closing just ten years later. The SRS website shows that the box also controlled an up and a down refuge siding. Remarkably, it is still standing and even more so that it survived the electrification process evidence of which can be seen in the foreground.