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I don't know (because you don't say) what you know already, so this is general advice. Local newspapers may have reported it, but it may take a bit of searching to identify them all and find copies to look through - the main local library would be the place to find out. The death certificate...

Since it is topical, you might like to see what was there when the box was in service. There is a visit report with pictures by the Branch Line Society here.

I shall try to remember to look for what happens to the contents of Wokingham box - it's being demolished this weekend.

According to this Rail Engineer article, it was "Signal Transmit Receive And Distribution (STRAD) – an electronic teleprinter exchange ahead of its time when it was introduced on the London Midland Region (LMR) at Crewe 60 years ago."

"Bridge arm" is a standard term in Series 1, for a compact registration arm to be fitted in the confined space under a bridge. Like any other registration arm it cannot support any weight; it is free to move vertically. I'm assuming the term is used in that sense by NR in that press release...

This is Network Rail's explanation,. which makes a little more sense: The last I heard was when the OLE went into use, using the roof-fixed bar (Furey+Frey's ROCS) but with the copper conductor wire usually clamped to its underside replaced by Al alloy one to reduce corrosion. It looks as if...

I suspect there is less to this than meets the eye, despite it having its origins around 1850, when the Farnham branch was built. The earliest map I can find in NLS is 1870s, so well after that initial enlargement, but before the building of the New Guildford Railway via Cobham and consequent...

Some Spoonerisms are obligatory - they become the usual name and you have to stop and think to make sure you use the "correct" version. Even before it was built, the station to be named Porkway Partway - or something like that - was confusing, so much so that in the event it was named Porkway...

Before the station was rebuilt there were six full-length platforms, and that was where platform six was. But it's not part of the original one; both the outside platforms were demolished in 1975 so that tracks could be moved outwards and the two island platforms widened. Obviously that bit...

BEA-TT produced a further progress report in February 2026, though I'm not sure why as it says very little. After repeating their previous description of the incident, and listing the two recommendations so far (both noted above) they add this:

It does look as if the ferry add-ons to the all-line rail rover changed over the years, so the full set of what people can remember were never included at once. You'd expect that where the range of ferries operated by BR or its associates changed, but also as a result of deals being done with...

Looking for further newspaper content, there were BR press releases, quoted in many near-identical newspaper reports, in 1987 and 1994. These appear to be for new or revised product ranges, though it's not explicit in 1994. In 1987 there was a new range of all-line, regional, and local rovers...

And new ones are still being installed, for example at Wokingham during the Feltham resignalling in 2024. I presume that it is needed for when the turnback facility is used, and trains terminate and then wait and return later. When the signaller was in the box just off the end of the station...

They were advertised as "new" in summer 1962, and covered all railways plus the Clyde and Loch Lomond steamers. However, I found a single reference in 1959 to the same thing, being commended as bringing tourists to Britain from abroad. That suggests that they may have initially been sold only...

The tracks across Vallance Road might have still been there at that date - it's before the earliest Google photos I could find (obviously).

It looks like you may have had a good idea where you were lost! This is Hemming Street going under the GEML. Or rather it was - Google Street View from about ten years ago; the latest views show the tracks been removed (or covered over). https://maps.app.goo.gl/VfBRuXUVgeHeX9NT6

The location is not clearly specified in the reports, and Gribskov municipality covers a large area. The specific place is at the level crossing on what looks like a slip road to the A19, 3km north of Hillerød station.

I suspect copiers (i.e. multifunction printers) these days can do this quite easily - if you poke about in the control menu enough to find it. My Canon all-in-one lets you select foolscap originals and will autoscale to the paper to be used (and it's fully two-sided). I'm sure big professional...

The question I posed was why the term "publicly owned railways" was used. This was used, obviously, when talking about nationalisation, for example after WW1 when the Labour Party and unions were campaigning on the subject. But it was as common in the 1920s, due to that argument about derating...

By the way, James Cottom was born in 25th August 1874.