Signal box, Grendon Underwood, Buckinghamshire
The man at the levers has a pocket watch in his waistcoat to check the times of the trains. The coming of the railways in the middle of the 19th century was the first occasion that time needed to be standardised across the country, and the term 'Railway Time' was often used.
Location
Buckinghamshire Grendon UnderwoodPeriod
Victorian (1837 - 1901)Themes
