See (amongst many other online resources) this rail.co.uk article about Banbury North and Banbury South signal boxes: www.rail.co.uk/rail-news/2016/century-old-railway-landmark-banbury-signal-boxes-decommissioned/ In the '60s the powers-that-be decided that old buildings must be demolished and be replaced by soopah-doopah, ultra-efficient, modern buildings. This was the way of the future. The result was thousands of faceless, soulless, ugly eyesores the length and breadth of the country. Just thirty years later everyone was asking "Why on earth did they destroy all of those beautiful old buildings? Couldn't they at least have preserved some of them?" Some people never learn.
See (amongst many other online resources) this rail.co.uk article about Banbury North and Banbury South signal boxes:
www.rail.co.uk/rail-news/2016/century-old-railway-landmark-banbury-signal-boxes-decommissioned/
In the '60s the powers-that-be decided that old buildings must be demolished and be replaced by soopah-doopah, ultra-efficient, modern buildings. This was the way of the future. The result was thousands of faceless, soulless, ugly eyesores the length and breadth of the country. Just thirty years later everyone was asking "Why on earth did they destroy all of those beautiful old buildings? Couldn't they at least have preserved some of them?"
Some people never learn.