The condition of the 1909-built signal box - the deterioration of which has been well documented by Geograph contributors over the years - has gone downhill in the fourteen years since Stuart Wilding took
SO6907 : Gloucester to Chepstow Railway Line. The box once controlled the junction with the Forest of Dean Central's line to New Fancy Colliery (although it didn't go that far for long). It was originally intended that the FoDCR transported its traffic directly to a dock at nearby Brimspill, via its own line: this was never built (although some earthworks were completed) and a junction with the South Wales Railway was built instead. The FoDCR never lived up to its promise and was closed in stages from 1872 (four years after opening) to final official closure of the remaining stub to Blakeney in 1949 (although in practice, traffic had fallen off sharply after the end of WWII which had seen the line used for the transport of charcoal). The signal box has been derelict since the 1970s.