Description

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912NE Severn Bridge Junction Signal Box at
653-1/12/4 SJ 496 126
23/01/91
(Formerly Listed as:
Severn Bridge Junction Box)

GV II

Signal box, LNWR type 4. 1903. For The London and North
Western and Great Western Railway Joint Committee. Brick with
glazed timber upper storey; gabled Welsh slate roof. Narrow
rectangular plan. 3 storeys. 6-bay range housing locking room
with interlocking frame, and operating floor above. Blocked
ground-floor windows and small segmental-arched one-light
first-floor windows set in recessed panels with dentilled
cornicing; brackets to walkway set around cabin of operating
floor, which has horizontally sliding sashes. Gable end entry.
INTERIOR: interlocking frame of 180 levers, of London and
North Western Railway design, and block instruments on shelf.
Part of an outstanding group of buildings including Shrewsbury
Railway Station (qv) and Crewe Junction Signal Box (qv), built
as part of a single improvement scheme for Shrewsbury Station.

Listing NGR: SJ4960012600

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561425

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)