The tiny Fenland village of Murrow bizarrely once had two stations named East and West serving its meagre population. The two lines, the GN & GE Joint and the M & GN Joint, crossed each other on a flat crossing just to the west of the village. All was well until a disastrous crash between two freight trains the winter of 1941 caused by some frozen points. In this view the GN & GE Joint line passes in front of the superb 1950 British Railways built LNER designed box. Where I am standing M & GN route crossing from left to right at the far end of the box just beyond the small hut. The signalman would have had excellent all-round vision from the box of everything that it controlled. Today the box has been converted into a home, see….
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