Latitude: 52.7094 / 52°42'33"N
Longitude: -2.746 / 2°44'45"W
OS Eastings: 349697
OS Northings: 312678
OS Grid: SJ496126
Mapcode National: GBR BJ.2BNS
Mapcode Global: WH8BT.S5L7
Plus Code: 9C4VP753+QJ
Entry Name: Severn Bridge Junction Signal Box at SJ 496 126
Listing Date: 23 January 1991
Last Amended: 17 November 1995
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1271480
English Heritage Legacy ID: 454643
ID on this website: 101271480
Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY2
County: Shropshire
Civil Parish: Shrewsbury
Built-Up Area: Shrewsbury
Traditional County: Shropshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire
Church of England Parish: Shrewsbury Holy Cross
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Signal box
SHREWSBURY
SJ4912NE Severn Bridge Junction Signal Box at 653-1/12/4 SJ 496 126 23/01/91 (Formerly Listed as: Severn Bridge Junction Box)
GV II
Signal box, LNWR type 4. 1903. For The London and North Western and Great Western Railway Joint Committee. Brick with glazed timber upper storey; gabled Welsh slate roof. Narrow rectangular plan. 3 storeys. 6-bay range housing locking room with interlocking frame, and operating floor above. Blocked ground-floor windows and small segmental-arched one-light first-floor windows set in recessed panels with dentilled cornicing; brackets to walkway set around cabin of operating floor, which has horizontally sliding sashes. Gable end entry. INTERIOR: interlocking frame of 180 levers, of London and North Western Railway design, and block instruments on shelf. Part of an outstanding group of buildings including Shrewsbury Railway Station (qv) and Crewe Junction Signal Box (qv), built as part of a single improvement scheme for Shrewsbury Station.
Listing NGR: SJ4960012600
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