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CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt may be fumbling at the financial levers to get inflation under control, but he had a firm hand on the actual controls of a railway signal box in his Farnham constituency. The box at Haslemere, Surrey, dates from 1895 and is Grade II-listed but is to be replaced by a modern signals centre at Basingstoke. Hunt is backing a preservation campaign. 'It has so much history, and for me personally I realised a childhood dream to use the controls at a railway station,' the marathon-running MP told the Farnham Herald. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]