Overtrack Signal Box to East of Hexham Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1988. Signal box. 1 related planning application.
Overtrack Signal Box to East of Hexham Railway Station
- WRENN ID
- noble-jamb-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1988
- Type
- Signal box
- Address
- Overtrack Signal Box to East of Hexham Railway Station, Station Road, NE46 1ET
- OS grid reference
- NY 942 641
- Coordinates
- 54.97227, -2.09133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The overtrack signal box, built around 1896 for the North Eastern Railway, is located to the east of Hexham Railway Station. It is constructed from brick and steel, featuring a boarded and glazed superstructure on a steel frame, topped with a slate roof and a brick chimney. The south elevation displays two brick arches, with the brickwork extending into the superstructure between two large boarded panels. A steel external staircase leads to a glazed door on the right side. The structure has a low-pitched pyramidal roof with a corniced central stack.
From the brick wall, two wide elliptical steel arches span the track and support the gantry beams. At the north end, two similar round arches between open steel piers complete the support for an open platform, which has lattice iron railing, situated to the north of the enclosed box. The enclosed box features weather-boarding below continuous glazing on the north, east, and west sides. This signal box is one of only two remaining of its type on the line.
Local climate
Overtrack Signal Box to East of Hexham Railway Station receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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