Platform Signal Box At Holmwood Station is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1998. Signal_box.
Platform Signal Box At Holmwood Station
- WRENN ID
- waning-pier-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1998
- Type
- Signal_box
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TQ 14 SE CAPEL NORTH HOLMWOOD
1896/8/10010 Platform Signal Box at North Holmwood Station
II
Railway signal box. Circa 1876. Type 5 signal box design of 1876 by Saxby and Farmer for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway; contemporary S and F Rocker lever frame. Plinth of red brick in Flemish bond supports framed construction of 2 x 2 bays; 4-pane side-sliding sash windows, the upper lights with curved heads; deep panelled frieze; bracket with faceted finials support boxed eaves and oversailing, hipped, Welsh slate roof with central ridge vent. Entrance in north-east side. Interior: original levers, telegraph block instruments and brass-cased signal and track circuit repeaters by the W R Sykes interlocking signal company. Locking room below. An early and complete example of the Saxby and Farmer Type 5 signal box with the original lever frame intact. [See "The Signal Box" by The Signalling Study Group, 1986.]
Listing NGR: TQ1741943737
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