Signal Box Approximately 150 Metres East Of Hertford East Station

HERTFORD

TL3313SW RAILWAY STREET 817-1/6/119 (North side) Signal Box approx 150m east of Hertford East Station

GV II

Signal box. 1888. Timber-framed and weatherboarded, with gabled Welsh slated roof with brick chimney on north-east corner. Built by the Great Eastern Railway, this was a typical example of their standard design introduced in the 1880s, 11ft 4in wide and 26ft long. EXTERIOR: 2 storey. First floor; 6 bays of 9-pane windows, 2 module return glazed ends, door in west flank elevation approached by external timber staircase and balcony. Ground floor weatherboard clad with 2 coupled 10-pane horizontally proportioned windows on ground floor. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: The Great Eastern line was run into Hertford East in 1888 from its 1843 Eastern Counties Railway terminal on Railway Street. The box originally contained 36 levers (34 working, 2 spare) but was expanded to 45 levers when the contemporary Hertford Junction Box, which controlled the Great Northern line to Cowbridge was closed in 1930s (now demolished). (Dent D: 150 Years of the Hertford and Ware Railway: Ware: 1993-: 86-7).

Listing NGR: TL3322713021