Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rhyl No.2 Signal Box
Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhyl, Denbighshire, designated on 7 August 1990.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 7 August 1990
- Community
- Rhyl
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.31696, -3.49126
- Cadw reference
- 1514
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesNational Library of ScotlandDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 95 Rhyl (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1963 · Map No. 36 - Local Government Commission for Wales : [Definitive maps showing proposed… (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
Sited at the far W end of the long up (N) platform at Rhyl Railway Station.
History
Dated 1884 (prior to major improvements to the main lines and goods yards by LNWR). Rhyl No 2 is of Saxby and Farmer LNW box type 4 and is of the same class and size as the massive Shrewsbury Severn Bridge Junction box built by LNWR in 1903 (now the largest surviving mechanical box on BR).
Exterior
Long 3-storey 6-bay trackside signal box with tarred slates to gabled roof with flush bargeboards and inset finials set directly over the weatherboarding of operating floor. Oversailing eaves to long sides with cantilevered catwalks on metal brackets returned along gable ends. 4-pane timber sliding sashes in continuous band to operating room.
Lower storeys of variegated red brickwork with blue brick sill bands paired camber-headed windows in recessed panels with headed corbels. Similar 4-pane metal-frame windows to plain ground floor. Top storey of rear elevation with cantilevered cubicle to left; metal ladder to narrow W gable end with boarded ground floor door.
Lever frames comprising 127 levers visible inside at time of inspection (March 1990).
Reason for designation
The largest operational signal box of this type and size in North Wales.
Nearby in the register
- Cynval VillasCommercialunder 1 mi
- Main Building and Footbridge, Rhyl Railway StationTransportunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box on the up platform at Rhyl Railway StationCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Bee and Station HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.