FIRGROVE

This station is around 40kms from Cape Town and, although it is outside a major urban area, it is largest signalling installation on the Strand line, with 20 levers. This is due it being an interchange with the AECI industrial line. The station seems to be jinxed, with the original station building burning down (including the box), and a signalman being shot to death, but it remains one of the holdouts for semaphore signals in South Africa, and some of the signals were being renewed early in 2010. In this picture by Greg Hart, you can a special passenger working crossing another train, with the signal box in the foreground.