Description

TQ 2079
962/6/10042

BOLLO LANE, W4
(south-west side)
Bollo Lane Junction Signal Box

II

Railway signal box. Probably 1878, date of opening of junction. Type 2 signal box design of 1878 for the London and South Western Railway Company; addition of 1983. Basement locking room of brick in Flemish bond supports framed construction of 4 x 2 bays with vertical boarding and small-pane, side-sliding sash windows; fretted and pointed vertical eaves boards below oversailing, hipped, Welsh-slate roof with two spiked flnials and central ridge vent. Entrance up steps, and addition, on north side.

An early and little-altered signal box, believed to he the only surviving example of the London and South Western Type 2 box.

[The Signalling Study Group, The Signal Box, 1986]

Listing NGR: TQ2002079014

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26609397

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