Lift Off For Great Missenden Signal Box
On Oct 23, 5:54*pm, RPM wrote:
Work is underway tonight to remove the long-redundant signal box at Great Missenden. A large crane and a low loader were present in the car park when I passed through tonight, and workmen have been active at the box for the last couple of weeks dismantling the frame and making the structure ready for the move. Apparently it has been bought by the Mid Hants Railway for use at Medstead & Four Marks. This is slightly puzzling because as far as I know Medstead already has a perfectly good signal box and I can't see what the Watercress Line would want with such a typical Metropolitan Railway box. Can anybody provide the full story? Nevertheless, much as I will miss seeing it, it is good to see it being preserved. It was slowly rotting away and it was surely only a matter or time before some scrote set fire to it. It is great to hear that it is being preserved. It would have been a good fit for Quainton, except that they have a box, a Midland one! Such is the world of preservation. |
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