As we were alighting from our tube train at Kensington

Olympia station the through signals were pulled off and this duo appeared around the curve in the distance and under Kensington High Street bridge. I am not at all sure as to why large logo 50015 'Valiant' was being dragged by 33016 but my suspicion is that it was being taken for attention back to Old Oak Common following use on the L&SWR Waterloo to Exeter route. The superb and rather grand Kensington South Main signal box controlled signalling to the south end of the station with North Main at the other end that also controlled access to the Motorail terminal. Kensington was a strange mixture GWR lower quadrant signalling controlled by an LMS box. The box was closed in the early 1990s when the semaphore signalling was abolished but the empty box survived until the autumn of 1993. Notice the R-Stock tube train sitting at the adjacent platform that will soon be returning the very short distance to Earl's Court.