Talk:Station box

Reason for this article
When I tried to find out what a station box is, I could not find a good description. So I tried my best here to provide one. I have found this term used in some technical documents and in that context it was clear what is meant. I hope that this helps others along. Wribln (talk) 10:36, 27 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Good effort, but references to published reliable sources would be good. - David Biddulph (talk) 11:03, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Other meanings of station box
While adding links to other articles referencing this term, I found another use which has something to do with railway signalling buildings, for example here: Dereham Central#Signal boxes. Anyone who can define what this type of station box is? Wribln (talk) 11:57, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
 * That's just a contraction of, "the station's signal box". It's irrelevant and unimportant here. I wouldn't even see-also it. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:28, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you - I thought it would be something like that. Wribln (talk) 12:32, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Development of the term?
Where does this term come from? AFAIK it's a modern term and has gone from nowhere to everywhere - or at least everywhere on the Crossrail project - in just a few years. There seem to be three possibilities:
 * A structural box to enclose a part-buried station. This is a construction technique specific to highly urbanised sites where a surface or shallow cutting railway needs to have an intensive commercial development placed on top of it. It's primarily structural.
 * A construction technique, for building stations more quickly. This is either because box-building can be achieved more quickly, because it can be done by a separate builder and civil engineer who aren't railway specialists, or because the anonymous box offers flexibility in the future.
 * A commercial technique of accountancy. Boxes are built by one builder, railways by another. In the crazy world of modern finance, this offers some supposed advantage.

Any explanation and history of the technique's development would be good. It's everywhere at present, but where did it come from? Andy Dingley (talk) 12:33, 27 September 2013 (UTC)


 * In this context, there is at least another term for a similar (underground) structure: Switch box (for areas with crossings or turn-offs). Wribln (talk) 11:26, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

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Top down / Bottom up
Made some changes to this article and this blog page was flagged -. I thought this link provided the best explanation for the difference between "top down" and "bottom up" station box construction - I'd welcome additional references if you can find some! Turini2 (talk) 12:09, 19 July 2017 (UTC)