Urbex: Woking Electrical Control Room

The Woking control room was built during 1936. One of five control rooms built to control the electricity on the Southern Rail network. A Swedish firm Asean was contracted to construct the flat roof building which was designed by architect James Robb Scott.  

Externally a fairly non descript concrete block with some windows houses one of the finest control rooms I have seen. A large oval room with white domed ceiling houses a small central switchboard desk and four decorative cast iron poles each holding up a large copper dish, these light up the room with huge bulbs which resemble a small rugby ball. Other than these five items the room is pretty much empty, however the walls are adorned with black control panels.