Dorking Deepdene Railway Control center

Dorking Deepdene Railway control Centre 

Location : Dorking

Date: 29-04-2018 

History:

https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/deepdene-ww2-southern-railway-traffic-control-centre/ 

The bunker was constructed within the caves which were enlarged to house the 30 staff and once complete their emergency headquarters with office staff was moved there from Waterloo. The network of tunnels included a Control Room, meeting room, switchboard, battery room, main distribution frame (MDF)/maintainers room, a bedroom for the night officer and an air plant and toilet facilities. The switchboard was a three-positioned installation with Post Office lines and extensions serving the headquarters staff with direct lines to the various divisional traffic and engineering officers; it was in use 24 hours a day.