Latitude: 51.3966 / 51°23'47"N
Longitude: -3.2624 / 3°15'44"W
OS Eastings: 312267
OS Northings: 167147
OS Grid: ST122671
Mapcode National: GBR HT.RB2K
Mapcode Global: VH6FR.D5M7
Plus Code: 9C3R9PWQ+J2
Entry Name: Operator's Cabin to Sliding Bridge
Listing Date: 13 February 1996
Last Amended: 13 February 1996
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 16837
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300016837
Location: To SE of bridge.
County: Vale of Glamorgan
Community: Barry (Y Barri)
Community: Barry
Locality: Barry Docks
Built-Up Area: Barry
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Operators hut probably contemporary with bridge (1889). In form of standard pattern wooden Barry Railway signal box (believed to be last of its type). Aligned parallel to bridge with gables to E and W. Wooden construction with horizontal boarding, slate roof, but brick basement. Decorative bargeboards, and some panelling to gable ends. E end has wooden steps up to entrance doorway; three windows to each side at operator's level; balconies to 3 sides on iron brackets, metal rails. Ground floor doorway to S, and steps down to basement doorway below this. Attached to box (W), is small wooden hut with vertical boarding, and hipped slate roof, mechanism (hydraulic cylinder?) to interior.
Inside the operator's cabin is the original lever frame mechanism of 7 levers, with further adjacent lever.
Included as integral part of sliding bridge, and believed to be last surviving example of wooden Barry Railway signal box.
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