North Weald and Ongar rise from the dead

There is a fascinating, and relevant, thread about the Ongar signalling arrangements at:
www.signalbox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2066&hilit=ongar

As an only occasional contributor here I'm afraid I didn't. I must pay more attention!

Nevertheless as someone who only remembers Ongar station as a single tracked '62 stock terminus I found the linked thread fascinating!

Even in my time as a regular passenger I remember Fred's scorpions, and the underground fire in the embankment (smoke drifting over the station for months). Another geezer who worked on the line tried to preserve the Ongar signal box by boarding over the smashed windows and giving it a lick of paint. However LUL demolished it, and the goods shed, a few vears later.

For a short time I went from Ongar to Blake Hall and back every Sunday, the staff there were friendly but surprised to see anyone getting on or off the train. A nice (coal?) fire burned in the waiting room, an original GER bench was still on the platform and the person who lived in the station house had built a minature steam railway in the garden.