Navigation Street, Birmingham on 28th December 1983. With New Street station situated below, the signal box rises above street level taking centre stage here. A variety of WMPTE buses can be seen with a Park Royal bodied Fleetline nearest.
Now a Grade II listed building, Birmingham New Street Signal Box dates from 1964 when the station was rebuilt. Architects Bicknell and Hamilton in collaboration with R L Moorcraft the Regional Architect, London Midland Region. Horizontal pre-cast concrete cladding units of a bold triangular profile, hung from a reinforced concrete frame. The boundary parapet wall in Navigation Street is constructed from facetted vertical pre-cast concrete units. Continuous metal windows; walls on either side of the entrance doors are finished in vertical glazed tiling. Flat roof. Contains staff and equipment rooms. Five storeys high above railway track level and four storeys above street level with single storey wing at track level. Various floor to floor heights. The signalling control room at top level is surrounded by a projecting flat roof with a deep down-standing fascia to provide shading for the control console. The building is very much a 'one off' constructed on a very difficult and congested site. A dramatic building of exceptional architectural quality with a strongly sculptural form. [Source: English Heritage]
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