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Latitude: 51.3893 / 51°23'21"N
Longitude: -3.3881 / 3°23'17"W
OS Eastings: 303512
OS Northings: 166494
OS Grid: ST035664
Mapcode National: GBR HN.RNJ4
Mapcode Global: VH6FP.7B6V
Plus Code: 9C3R9JQ6+PQ
Entry Name: Aberthaw Signal Box
Listing Date: 30 September 2004
Last Amended: 30 September 2004
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 83145
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300083145
Location: Standing on the platform of the demolished Aberthaw High Level station about 100m to the west of Station Terrace in East Aberthaw.
County: Vale of Glamorgan
Town: Barry
Community: Rhoose (Y Rhws)
Community: Rhoose
Locality: East Aberthaw
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Opened in 1897 as a part of the Vale of Glamorgan Railway from Barry to Bridgend, and this was incorporated into the Great Western Railway at the 1923 Grouping. This structure is a Barry Railway Type 2 signal box, a type individual to the Vale of Glamorgan Railway, and now one of only two of its kind surviving and in use. [The other example is the Operators Cabin of 1889 at the Sliding Bridge, Barry Docks.] It still works the junctions and sidings for Aberthaw Cementworks and Aberthaw power station.
Red brick base with a timber framed upper storey and a Welsh slate roof. The ground floor locking room has three arched windows with glazing bars while the first floor is glazed in four sections with small panes over larger ones. Door to locking room and timber stair to gabled porch entry to the box on left hand gable end. The window returns on the right hand gable. Rear wall blind. Roof with plain bargeboards and spike finials. The signal box stands on what was the platform of Aberthaw (Barry or High Level) station, closed in 1964.
Interior not available at resurvey. It is understood to contain a lever frame of 53 levers which was installed in 1962, but not all of these levers will now be in use.
Included as a complete and working late C19 signal box which is the only example of its kind.
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