Downham Market’s signal box still stands and, at the time

of writing in 2023, is still in use as a crossing box and virtually identical today as per this 1981 photograph. It’s a Great Eastern Type 2 box dating from 1881 that stands at the southern end of the down-platform ramp with passengers using a flat crossing to join and leave the platform but today this arrangement has been revised with the exit and entry behind the box. As the box is now listed its future is secure in one form or another when closure eventually comes. The large building that dominates the background is Heygates 1851 built and once steam-powered flour mill. Today, the scene is the same barring a new office building constructed where the Heygates lorry is parked up to the right.