Cast-iron stoves in signal boxes

[petejones]

I'm modelling a signal box from the 1930s and wondered whether they had cast-iron stoves in those days?

 

Cheers

Pete

[Wheatley]

Yes. They were still around in the 1990s if not later so definitely there in the 1930s. 

 

Some boxes had proper fireplaces, it depends on the owning/building company. Stoves seem to have been more common in wooden boxes for obvious reasons.

Edited September 8, 2020 by Wheatley

[Tim V]

From your location you can't be far from Bronwydd Arms, that has an interesting signal box.

[petejones]

Thanks chaps, yes it is a wooden box I have.

[petejones]

2 hours ago, Tim V said:

Bronwydd Arms, that has an interesting signal box

 

Yes, thanks for that - it looks nice:

 

[Tim V]

I saw on your other thread you were using a type 27 box, here is a picture of the interior at the Coleford Museum. A round stove.

[petejones]

Excellent, thanks - that's really useful.

[SM42]

Banbury North had, I believe a Romesse stove till the day it closed. 2016 IIRC

 

Andy

[Michael Hodgson]

Stoves would need replacing every so many years - they were considered to be consumables.  The iron gradually erodes away to the point that dangerous fumes can leak into the building.  Leave it too long and the signal box will probably burn down!   

 

Romesse is a well known make widely used at least in recent years, but there were others.

 

The photo of Bronwydd Arms above shows a brick chimney plus chimney pot which tends to imply a proper fireplace, rather than a stove which usually has a metal flue with a cowling, but I suppose it would be possible to put a stove under a chimney

[petejones]

2 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

but I suppose it would be possible to put a stove under a chimney

 

Where I live, there is a flue that goes up the chimney, so that's entirely possible.