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Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the famous Box Tunnel in 1841 as part of his ambitious Great Western Railway link between London's Paddington station and Bristol's Temple Meads.

It has also served as a police station and a jail. It is the symbol of Aldeburgh.

The station is to the right, on the old London and South Western Railway line from Waterloo to Exeter.

Prominent in the middle distance is the Midland Railway Company's station, recently completely re-built and modernised, and beyond that rise the tower of the Town Hall and the famous twisted spire of the

The area beyond the Foundry Bridge had been converted into the city yacht station for pleasure boats, although as can be seen from this photograph, barges remained at the warehouse opposite.

Soldiers of the Portuguese army were stationed here in World War I.

The bus station was built on the site where the amusement fairs used to set up when they came to town.

The single-storey white building was the Coastguard Station, built between 1884 and 1904. Beacon Cottage, to the left, takes its name from the beacon that preceded the lighthouse of 1890.

One associates Benson with its RAF station and airfield, built in 1937. It was home to the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit during the Second World War.

The quay was constructed in 1640 and soon after Falmouth was granted the status of Britain's Mail Packet station. From here vessels sailed the world's oceans carrying Royal messages.

No shoppers are attracted to either Morcom's printers, stationers and fancy warehouse on the left, or to Wenmoth's typical hardware and ironmonger's shop opposite.

A modern petrol station stands there now.

In the bottom left corner is the tramway that brought ball clay from Peters Marland to the station at Torrington (centre).

From further up the road here we can still make out the Esso station we saw in photograph No D31071, dwarfed beyond the Star public house owned by Brains' brewery.

Though Fawkham was given a station on the LC & DR railway in the late 19th century it has retained its unspoilt charm and tranquillity.

This was designed by John Oldrid Scott, second son of the great Victorian architect, George Gilbert Scott, who built Clifton Hampden's bridge over the Thames further upstream, as well as St Pancras station

A landmark on the Bawtry-Thorne road, the Blue Bell Inn stands at the crossroads of the Doncaster-Epworth road in the heart of the low-lying Hatfield Moors, close to the RAF station at Finningley.

The building with the cupola was Chelmsford's first purpose-built police station (erected in 1907), so the policeman in the picture was not far from home.

It happened in a thick autumn mist when two trains collided on the single line running through the village station.

The club house, with its central lookout station, was built in 1935. To the left of it, within the fence, is the warning siren. The crowds are probably watching the annual regatta.

The police station, hospital, baths and school for Thirsk were actually in Sowerby. These lime trees still add colour to the scene.

The busy railway station situated just behind the photographer closed after the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, and this part of Somersham quietly faded into obscurity with no new development after the pre-war

Heading north-east we come to Wisbech St Mary, which is built alongside the New River, which takes the water of the Nene to the huge pumping station at Denver Sluice.

With the Roodee Racecourse situated halfway along it, trams carried racegoers in vast numbers from both Chester and Saltney stations.