Manea signal box is seen basking in the afternoon sunshine with the signalman having opened his huge original window with its distinctive and unusual glazing pattern. The box is an 1883 Great Eastern Type 3 design common to many in this area. Notice the steps that appear to have been made of some sort of industrial gauge Dexion? However, it still maintains it elegant bargboarding, decorative ridge tiles and one finial. In 1992, the box became the fringe box to Cambridge PSB and, at the time of writing in 2023, it is still in use but looks very different to this 1981 view.
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