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A Victorian signal box in Surrey is reopening to visitors after being transformed into a heritage attraction, reports BBC News.
BBC News writes:
The Grade II-listed Haslemere signal box, which directed trains on the Portsmouth Direct Line until last year, will open on Sunday as part of a project to preserve railway history…
Trust chairman Ken Griffiths said volunteers had spent years working to secure the future of the signal box, which dates from 1895.
Griffiths described the signalling system as a ‘clever bit of an early mechanical computer’… a system of levers prevented operators from making unsafe signalling decisions…
