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Latitude: 54.9723 / 54°58'20"N
Longitude: -2.0913 / 2°5'28"W
OS Eastings: 394252
OS Northings: 564187
OS Grid: NY942641
Mapcode National: GBR FBVY.1C
Mapcode Global: WHB2C.V9B1
Plus Code: 9C6VXWC5+WF
Entry Name: Overtrack Signal Box to East of Hexham Railway Station
Listing Date: 22 February 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1042523
English Heritage Legacy ID: 239247
Also known as: Hexham signal box
ID on this website: 101042523
Location: Hexham, Northumberland, NE46
County: Northumberland
Civil Parish: Hexham
Built-Up Area: Hexham
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland
Church of England Parish: Hexham
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: Signal box
STATION ROAD(east side off)
1.
5344 Overtrack signal box
to east of Hexham
NY 9464 10/406 Railway Station
II
2.
Gantry signal cabin, circa 1896 for the North Eastern Railway. Brick and steel
with boarded and glazed superstructure on steel frame, slate roof, brick chimney.
South elevation shows 2 brick arches and brickwork carried up into the super-
structure between 2 large boarded panels. Steel external staircase to glazed door
at right. Low-pitched pyramidal roof with corniced central stack. From the brick
wall 2 wide elliptical steel arches span the track and support the gantry beams.
2 similar round arches, between open steel piers, at north end, complete the
support of an open platform, with lattice iron railing, to north of the enclosed
box which has weather-boarding below continuous glazing, to north, east and west.
One of only 2 remaining signal boxes of this type on the line.
Listing NGR: NY9425264187
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