That's probably a completely meaningless headline for anyone not versed with railway terminology, but in fact it is a design of signal that comprises three short signal posts mounted on a bracket, atop a main post. The three signals are intended to control train movements in to Broadway station once the railway's extension reaches there. The bracket signal has come from the 'Greenford Loop', a line that diverges from the Great Western main line at West Ealing, on the western outskirts of London. The route, opening in 1903 runs to Northolt Junction on the Great Central (and was known as the Great Western & Great Central Joint Line) and provided a fast route for GWR services from Paddington to Birmingham. Says Andrew Goodman, engineering director: "This signal post is an extraordinary survivor and although for many years it has been bereft of the signals it once bore, it is in pretty good condition.  Network Rail finally removed the signal - and a double bracket signal at the same time - and at very short notice invited us if we wanted them - of so, come and get them." He adds: "It would be nice to think that one day the double bracket might control southbound trains coming entering Broadway station from Honeybourne…"

The GWR already has the signal arms and operating equipment necessary for the signals. "This means that we now have just about all the signalling equipment we need for our railway as it expands ," Andrew says.