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BOSTON TF3243NW SLEAFORD ROAD 716-1/9/157 (South side) 02/05/86 West Street Junction Box II Signal box. 1875 for the Great Northern Railway. Butt brick, timber cladding, Welsh slate roof. Brick base with glazing bar window in end. EXTERIOR: signalman's room at 1st floor level with external timber steps, is fully glazed to all 4 sides, with 6-paned timber windows, 8 to sides and 4 to gable ends. Boarded gables, with decorative carved bargeboard and timber finial. A 60-lever McKenzie and Holland frame replaced the original in 1894 and a gate wheel was installed. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: this is the oldest GNR signal box still in use, and was built to control the northern junction of the main line with the goods line near the West Street level crossing. (Cartwright A: Boston. A Railway Town: Boston: 1987-). Listing NGR: TF3223643948

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