{"id":5382,"date":"2015-03-08T17:10:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T17:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2025-09-27T13:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:31:16","slug":"hook-heath-southern-railway-pillbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/hook-heath-southern-railway-pillbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Hook Heath Southern Railway Pillbox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Blackhorse Road Railway Bridge, Woking, Surrey.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Ngr SU968571<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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I believe the defence was manned by men from the Southern Railway LDV\/Home Guard who had their headquarters close to Woking main line station.
By\u00c2\u00a0 Tim Denton 2006<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This large rectangular pillbox stands protecting the road bridge under the main London to Bournemouth railway at Blackhorse Rd, Woking, despite being partially overgrown the structure looks in excellent condition and has three facing south west facing embrasures which cover the road approach to the tunnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bullet proof pillbox was constructed using red brick shuttering with its embrasures made from separate concrete castings, the rear entrance is protected by a half height\u00a0L<\/strong>\u00a0blastwall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Southern Railway Pillbox, Hook Heath, Woking, Surrey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I believe the defence was manned by men from the Southern Railway LDV\/Home Guard who had their headquarters close to Woking main line station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Tim Denton 2006<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blackhorse Road Railway Bridge, Woking, Surrey. Ngr SU968571 This large rectangular pillbox stands protecting the road bridge under the main London to Bournemouth railway at Blackhorse Rd, Woking, despite being partially overgrown the structure looks in excellent condition and has three facing south west facing embrasures which cover the road approach to the tunnel. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[212,84,155,154],"class_list":["post-5382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-england","category-surrey","tag-hook","tag-pillbox","tag-railway","tag-southern","czr-hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}