With the sun having just gone behind an errant cloud Andy watches on from the other side (along with an S & T engineer) of the level crossing as the CrossCountry 10.27 Stansted Airport to Birmingham New Street service passes March South Junction signal box worked by 170618. Every time that I visit this location I wonder if the large Eastern Region enamel attached to the front of the box will still be there. As a trophy when the box eventually closes, it would be a fine prize but I feel that maybe it ought to be donated to the town council perhaps having been such an obvious visual marker for so many years. I first visited this box in 1981, see...
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