On Thursday 8th May there was a service of Remembrance for workers who lost their lives and the vital role of the railway in the Second World War and an unveiling of a commemorative plaque, at the Grade II listed Signal Box at Haslemere Railway Station, organised by the Haslemere Community Station and Signal Box Trust.

As Mark Simpson discovered, the box has been in operation since 1895, controlling trains between Petersfield and Farncombe, but will be decommissioned in October. There are plans for the signal box to become a Museum, with a Memorial Garden around it.

Here are many of the people who attended the ceremony, which was opened by Haslemere’s Town Crier – Christian Ashdown.