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Blast! I missed the anniversary. It was my first railway event. I was 11. I'm the boy on the platform on the extreme right of the picture, clutching a sketch pad 'cos I didn't own a camera. I still have the paperwork: Special train ticket (child, 50p), Programme, and copy of The Last Drop.

It's an LSWR box (opened in 1908 as Yeovil Jn East, renamed Yeovil Jn A in 1949) which was fitted with WR-pattern windows in the BR period, probably around 1967 when the box was given a WR lever frame. Subsequent to your photo, the windows were replaced by oddly-proportioned plastic versions of the GWR style, making the box look even stranger. It closed on 12 March 2012.

You will get a clearer picture from the actual RAIB report: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safety-digest-032021-llandegai-tunnel/near-miss-with-track-workers-at-llandegai-tunnel-llandygai-gwynedd-13-february-2021

I think "Guildford" is actually South Croydon Junction, which was operational from 1953 to 1984.

That's Basingstoke West, which became Basingstoke B in 1956, and closed in 1966. The 3 and 4 probably mark mileages (48 m 3c and 48m 4c): most of the Southern has markers for each chain, if you know where to look.

In the corrections to GWW that the HMRS issued in 2009, it is acknowledged that the locomotive is actually green.

Appearance would be greatly improved if you modified the white band on the arm to more correct proportions. It should be 8" wide, and start 13" from the end of the arm. The same goes for the black band on the back of the arm.

The nameplate is standard GWR cast-iron, but has been painted black on white in mimicry of BR 1970s sheet metal nameplates. By contrast, Worcester SH station, also seen above, has a stamped sheet metal nameplate of WR design, which shows grey/white letters on a black ground.

That's a very ordinary, very common design of trap points. Just one that Peco haven't made yet

Ooh, you're making me feel old. Here it is on 7 January 1980 and 30 June 1981

As the GW&GC signals with shunt ahead arms were all advance starters, a fair distance from station platforms, they have not featured much in photographs. Despite keeping close tabs on material about the line published over the last forty years, I can't find a single picture that shows one in UQ or LQ form, so you may have to apply rule 1!

I recently had cause to alert to OS to a garden boundary, which had changed around 1966, still being shown incorrectly on their maps. They explained that even as far back as that, they relied on aerial surveys to keep on top of that sort of thing. In this case tree cover meant they couldn't see the fences concerned, so they thanked me for getting in touch and sent round a man with a GPS-enabled pole, which he put up against the fence in question in two places, entered the result on his tablet and declared it re-surveyed. They have since assured me that the alteration will be visible when the monthly update of the master map is issued in three weeks time. How that works in the context of updating railway details I have no idea.

A very common practice on the LNWR, allegedly to reduce the load on the levers and minimise maintenance costs- though that doesn't really explain why they are still like that now, given the points are now power-worked and the changes to the layout down the years.

The numbers on the tender are the wrong shape- much too narrow, and the 3 should be round-topped.

According to the RCTS, 4946 Moseley Hall was the first ex-GW locomotive to be lettered "BRITISH RAILWAYS", on 16 January 1948. Mind you, 6990 Witherslack Hall, built in April 1948, was paired with a tender lettered G (crest) W when it went to the GC section for the locomotive exchanges in June that year https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p937318270/hDADD8D32#hdadd8d28

The box you have labelled Queenstown Road is the former Queens Road East box, which closed in 1936, though it remained standing well into the 21st century, used as offices. The larger structure, the former Queens Road West box, became just Queens Road in 1936, and lasted as a signal box until May 1990 when the new panel at Wimbledon took over the area and it was demolished. The box was to the west of Queens Road (later Queenstown Road) station, and stood between the Main Local and Main Through lines. The picture is taken from a train on the Central section main line. https://www.wbsframe.mste.co.uk/public/Queens_Road_Battersea.html

Detonator placers

The former MoD sidings on the quayside at Neyland, apparently added as late as 1962, just two years before the line closed. Now the only remaining trace of the station and yard.

Fawley branch: Marchwood Frost Lane Crossing

Southampton, line to the Eastern docks: Chapel Crossing Canute Road East from St Denys: Adelaide Crossing Woolston Netley (now at Ropley) Swanwick Fareham

West from Southampton: Millbrook Redbridge Totton Brockenhurst

Here's some Southampton area ones, period 1979-81: St Denys Mount Pleasant Crossing Northam Junction Southampton Central

Here's my rather poor picture of Ulverston from the nearest bridge, taken in 1990. I'd say it confirms the identity of the box in your picture.

March 1990, surely, when the panel went in.

Bedford hasn't been a royal dukedom since 1495