Marshbrook is a tiny village nestling in the bottom of

the valley just south of the Strettons. The Marches line and the A49 pass through the valley with the B4370 heading westwards towards the A489. Where the B road crosses the railway is a level crossing controlled by this superb 1872 LNW & GW Joint signal box with its pyramydal hipped roof. It is one of the oldest manual boxes in use of this type and when this photograph was taken it still controlled some mechanical gates. Notice that the wooden nameboard spells the village's name as two words but it is generally written as just one.