Image French Drove signal box (GN, 1882)
French Drove signal box (GN, 1882)
French Drove signal box (GN, 1882) The lovely Great Eastern box at French Drove is seen waiting to signal its next train. However, being a Sunday there would be little traffic over the March to Spalding line that would close fifteen months after this photograph was taken. The box was located just north of a level crossing with the closed French Drove and Gedney station on the other side of the crossing. Like its neighbouring box at Murrow West this box still survives and is now a rather nice one-bedroomed house that has recently been on the market for £300,000 but it does have one-third of an acre of what would have been former railway land. By 2023 the box looks very different being totally surrounded by trees, see…. https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/30044473945/x11-former-french-drove-signal-box Keywords: French Drove signal box GN Great Northern
French Drove signal box (GN, 1882) The lovely Great Eastern box at French Drove is seen waiting to signal its next train. However, being a Sunday there would be little traffic over the March to Spalding line that would close fifteen months after this photograph was taken. The box was located just north of a level crossing with the closed French Drove and Gedney station on the other side of the crossing. Like its neighbouring box at Murrow West this box still survives and is now a rather nice one-bedroomed house that has recently been on the market for £300,000 but it does have one-third of an acre of what would have been former railway land. By 2023 the box looks very different being totally surrounded by trees, see…. https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/30044473945/x11-former-french-drove-signal-box Keywords: French Drove signal box GN Great Northern


The lovely Great Eastern box at French Drove is seen waiting to signal its next train. However, being a Sunday there would be little traffic over the March to Spalding line that would close fifteen months after this photograph was taken. The box was located just north of a level crossing with the closed French Drove and Gedney station on the other side of the crossing. Like its neighbouring box at Murrow West this box still survives and is now a rather nice one-bedroomed house that has recently been on the market for £300,000 but it does have one-third of an acre of what would have been former railway land. By 2023 the box looks very different being totally surrounded by trees, see…. https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/30044473945/x11-former-french-drove-signal-box