As a slight aside to the original research source, if you know anybody in a civil engineering company, they may have done railway related work for which drawings will exist. I could have had access to East Midlands Parkway station via this route.

Mike.

If it is anything to do with the GPO Trevor is probably your man. I should be seeing him at the Trent do at the weekend so will mention it then.

Kevin.

Your telephone exchange buildings are quite easy... The pitched roof one is an A type building, that probably housed a UAX5 or a UAX12. The hipped building is a B type and would have been built for the replacement exchange, probably a UAX13 (although it could have been a UAX6). 

Your later colour photo of the exchange shows that the B type has been extended over the footprint of the A type building, in this case at least twice, if not three times! I'm guess the original B type is actually the 1/4 that is behind the tree, and its actually been extended forward and backwards, and lost the hipped roof in the process. 

Andy G

13 hours ago, uax6 said:

Your telephone exchange buildings are quite easy... The pitched roof one is an A type building, that probably housed a UAX5 or a UAX12. The hipped building is a B type and would have been built for the replacement exchange, probably a UAX13 (although it could have been a UAX6). 

Your later colour photo of the exchange shows that the B type has been extended over the footprint of the A type building, in this case at least twice, if not three times! I'm guess the original B type is actually the 1/4 that is behind the tree, and its actually been extended forward and backwards, and lost the hipped roof in the process. 

 

Andy G

 

Thanks Andy, that is really helpful.

I've been searching online and I'm guessing that the A type would be something like this I found on Twitter

while the B type was like this (only not rendered)

Does anyone know of a site with any plans for these and where they generally a standard size and layout?

Actually I've found two better examples - Glemsford, not far from Clare in Suffolk

and Bures

and Felsted

Yeh! another research rabbit hole to dive down!

and now I've found some plans from where someone was refused permission to turn one in Oxfordshire into a house.

David

The first image isn't an A, its a bit like a B, but not quite! Probably a mod to the design to suit the site.

The second image is a rendered A type, as is the 3rd image (but with a different design roof!).

The remaining images are B types.

Sadly the official drawing for the early A types (with the timber windows, no longer exists, but the one for the later type with Crittal Z windows does... 

I'm not sure the B type drawing exists still, I'll have to do some digging. But the larger B1 type certainly does.

Both types are also available as timber built versions..

PM me, and I'll see what I can do for you!

Andy G