A real technical innovation, the Florentine Tower housed the depot’s signal box. 48.87 m high and equipped with a lightning rod, it was erected in concrete (500t) and red bricks (100t), although with some ceramic embellishments. Its square base occupies an area of 49 m2, its rectangular spindle is divided into five floors linked together by a metal staircase and topped by a room of 30 m2 (7.3 mx4.1 m). This room, which offers a panoramic view, supports, via a concrete trapezoid, a cube whose side faces were each decorated with a clock 3.20 m in diameter. They have now disappeared.

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Location: Buire, Vervins, Hauts-De-France, France

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