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Latitude: 54.6258 / 54°37'32"N
Longitude: -1.6349 / 1°38'5"W
OS Eastings: 423668
OS Northings: 525689
OS Grid: NZ236256
Mapcode National: GBR KG0Y.VK
Mapcode Global: WHC58.VZNP
Plus Code: 9C6WJ9G8+82
Entry Name: Shildon Signal Box
Listing Date: 12 October 2004
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390827
English Heritage Legacy ID: 491354
ID on this website: 101390827
Location: New Shildon, County Durham, DL4
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Shildon
Built-Up Area: Shildon
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Shildon
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Signal box
SHILDON
1029/0/10002 SPOUT LANE
12-OCT-04 SHILDON SIGNAL BOX
(Formerly listed as:
SPOUT LANE
SHILDON SIGNAL BOX AND ASSOCIATED BUIL
DINGS)
GV II
Signal box. 1887, altered 1928 and 1984. Built for the Central Division of the North-Eastern Railway Co. Ltd., possibly designed by the Thomas Prosser, architect to the NER. This box is a variant of the Central Division's Type C2 signal box. Red brick and timber with a slate roof. 2 storey.
North, track front, has two glazing bar windows, 3 x 3 panes, each set into a large blank panel. Above a projecting balcony with iron railings, and six windows in a row with timber boarded panels above. The outer two windows on either side are two light sliding sashes and the central two windows have fixed lights, both 3 x 3 panes.
East front has blank ground floor and two windows above, both 4 x 4 panes, with balcony.
South front to street has blank wall central projecting brick stack, the upper section rebuilt C20.
West front has external staircase leading to half-glazed door and two windows to left.
INTERIOR retains McKenzie & Holland pattern 16 frame lever system installed in 1928, and reduced from 55 levers to 42 levers in 1984.
This is a well designed signal box with group value and a well preserved, if reduced, lever frame for controlling and changing the points.
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