Crewe Junction Signal Box At Sj 4936 1306

SHREWSBURY

SJ4913SW CROSS STREET 653-1/9/262 (North side (off)) 23/01/91 Crewe Junction Signal Box at SJ 4936 1306 (Formerly Listed as: CROSS STREET Crewe Junction Signal Box)

GV II

Signal box. 1902-3. For London and North Western and Great Western Railway Joint Committee. Brick with weatherboarded top storey and slate roof. 4 storeys, comprising locking room with interlocking in lower storeys, operating floor above. 6-window range of small casements to 1st and 2nd floors, various doors to ground floor and two 3-light casements to top floor, facing track. Full-length range of horizontal sliding sash windows to operating floor, with doorway up flight of steps. Full length projecting gangway which is repeated on the gable ends as are the windows. Inside is a 120-lever interlocking frame with associated block shelves and working instruments. Part of an outstanding group of buildings including Shrewsbury Railway Station (qv) and Severn Bridge Junction Signal Box (qv), built as part of a single improvement scheme for Shrewsbury Station.

Listing NGR: SJ4936813070