The site of the former up platform buildings at Dawlish Warren station, gutted by fire in 2003 and then demolished have made way for a new building. The buildings were the original station buildings, then used as the South Devon Railway Museum and model railway before being rebuilt as holiday flats.

The new construction, built as a residential building, has been built in the same design as the former Dawlish Warren signal box, located at the London end of the down platform, and replaced as part of the 1990s West of England resignalling.

Many local people and visitors who have seen the building being erected recently and thought that a new era of mechanical signalling was returning to the West Country, sadly not, but full marks should be given to the developers for making such an attempt at recreating a part of recent railway history.