Colin Ryder provides the details - Photogenic exhaust as 45742 Connaught slogs its way past Scout Green crossing with the roof of the diminutive signal box visible behind the tender. Notice the tall repeater lower quadrant LNWR signal on the up line safeguarding the crossing; the upper arm high in the air giving a long-distance sight for trains as they descended from Shap Summit past Shap Wells and Salterwath; the lower arm is just visible against the first coach. This signal was taken down on 9 September 1963, having been replaced in function by a 2-aspect colour light on 9 June.The small crossing gates were manually operated. The one on this side is next to the black square notice board. Earlier photographs show an L-shaped cottage in the space occupied by the car in this photo. Probably, the cottage built for the crossing-keeper in LNWR days. The box was closed 16 April 1973. The box originally was a block post to break up the long section of the bank into two in order to improve traffic capacity. In the 1940s an Intermediate Block Signal between Tebay and Scout Green and one between there and Shap Summit SB were introduced to improve capacity further. The box and crossing got their name from Scout Green, a very tiny hamlet nestling along the banks of the river Birk Beck at the bottom of the hill to which the road on the right descends rapidly! In the other direction the road used to climb this side of the stunted tree to link the hamlet with the Orton andndash; Shap Village road, the present B6261. Now all swept away with the building of the M6 with its two carriageways at this point. Imagine the planners of the HS2 following the example of the LNWR!! 45742 was shedded at the time of the photo at Carlisle Upperby, after being at Bushbury from July 1951 to November 1959; it then moved to Carlisle Kingmoor in July 1962 until withdrawal in May 1965.