Railway listed buildings

[pdeaves]

I have a British Rail catalogue dated 1979 of its listed buildings. It is now online for your edification; see http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/stations/listedbuildings.pdf (17.5Mb file). It is also linked from the railwaycodes signal boxes, stations, tunnels and viaducts introduction pages. Enjoy!

 

[EveningStar]

Of course, thoroughly out of date now, yet actually very interesting, especially as I writing a research paper that is reviewing BR's attitude to listed buildings in the 1970's ... Brian Haresnape's 1977 articles in the Modern Railways must have stung.

 

[Edders23]

A year ago they did maintainence on my local (1845 built) listed station and were allowed by the planners to make a few cost cutting short cuts replacing Collyweston slate with grey slate on part of the roof and using a simpler but different edging on the canopy so the two platforms no longer match !!

 

[EveningStar]

A year ago they did maintainence on my local (1845 built) listed station and were allowed by the planners to make a few cost cutting short cuts replacing Collyweston slate with grey slate on part of the roof and using a simpler but different edging on the canopy so the two platforms no longer match !!

Not surprised. A few years ago supervised an undergraduate dissertation where the student identified there is such a shortage of Collyweston slate that there were only two options for a listed building ... either the planners show some flexibility or the building owner strip, presumably illicitly and under the cover of darkness, some suitable slate from another building. Am pleased to note that the planners opted for flexibility over larceny.

 

[John Webb]

Just misses out St Albans South signal box which was listed on the 23rd of February 1979 - just too late to get in, it seems!

 

[Edders23]

Not surprised. A few years ago supervised an undergraduate dissertation where the student identified there is such a shortage of Collyweston slate that there were only two options for a listed building ... either the planners show some flexibility or the building owner strip, presumably illicitly and under the cover of darkness, some suitable slate from another building. Am pleased to note that the planners opted for flexibility over larceny.

Collyweston slate is still quarried but not on a big scale also the reference to stripping is that there are hundreds of barns and outbuildings all around the area which have collyweston slate and if these are not listed the slate is replaced with plain slate by companies for the princely sum of getting to keep the collyweston slate for use on other projects