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Reference Number
18706
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/08/1997
Date of Amendment
05/08/1997
Name of Property
Signal Box at Abergele and Pensarn Railway Station
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Abergele
Town
Abergele
Locality
Pensarn
Easting
294694
Northing
378741
Street Side
N
Location
The signal box stands a little to the E of the platform buildings, between the two up lines and two down lines. Access is by a sleeper walk across the lines from the 'up' platform.
Description
Broad Class
Transport
Period
History
LNW Type 4 signal box built c1897.
Exterior
The timber framed box is set on a high red brick basement plinth with five small iron-framed windows each side. The box consists of 7 bays of alternate sliding and fixed windows overlooking the permanent way, returning by two and one bays at each end, below which is a bracketed walkway to facilitate window cleaning. Weatherboarding cladding between the windows and the eaves, and in both gable ends. Pitched slate roof with terminal finials. At the W end, a straight flight ladder with handrail provides the access to the half-glazed door. Iron framed boxes at ground level, now mostly blocked, allow the lever rods to emerge to the longitudinal signalling rods laid between the tracks.
Interior
The box has a 60 lever frame, of Tumbler type, many are no longer in use.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved large signal box, part of a group of four buildings of historic interest at Abergele Station.
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