Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559049

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