Bus shelter - or GWR relic rediscovered?

Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 15 May 2018

If I'd recognised this for what it once was, I'd have taken a more informative photograph. It was days later, looking through the Geograph database, that I found this image from Ben Brooksbank's unique archive: Image Ben's 1963 photo was taken just a couple of hundred yards (as they'd have said at the time) further north. The little shelter on the platform has a fancy barge-board (with a pinnacle) at the gable-end - features very typical of Victorian signal-boxes and station buildings. Those features are hard to make out in my contribution, but this photo from PL Chadwick shows the barge-board and a blanked-off window - enough, I think, to clinch the identity: Image I notice that in the eight years since PL Chadwick's photo, the pinnacle at the left-hand end has gone missing. The little structure is plainly at risk from vandalism - perhaps even from a high wind. I'm wondering whether the GWS at Didcot might find it a new home . . .

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