Pontypridd Signal Box
The boarded up grade II listed Pontypridd signal box (Rhondda Branch Junction signal box) closed in October 1998, with 230 levers it had a modified version of the McKenzie and Holland's type 3 design, situated between the Taff Vale Railway and the Rhondda Branch in the Welsh Valleys.
Pontypridd was at one point incredibly busy with freight trains carrying coal to Cardiff, Newport and Barry Docks from the Rhonnda and Aberdare Valleys, making Pontypridd one the busiest railway hubs in the country, all controlled from this box!
The last coal trains from the valleys passed through Pontypridd in May 2016.
Taken through the window of class 142 'Pacer' 142010 working the 13.36 Pontypridd-Treherbert service.
Taken whilst traveling on the excellent value for money £13 'Explore Cardiff & Valleys' Rail Ranger, this is one of the places i had never been to before and will probably never go back too.
28th March 2019
Pontypridd Signal Box
The boarded up grade II listed Pontypridd signal box (Rhondda Branch Junction signal box) closed in October 1998, with 230 levers it had a modified version of the McKenzie and Holland's type 3 design, situated between the Taff Vale Railway and the Rhondda Branch in the Welsh Valleys.
Pontypridd was at one point incredibly busy with freight trains carrying coal to Cardiff, Newport and Barry Docks from the Rhonnda and Aberdare Valleys, making Pontypridd one the busiest railway hubs in the country, all controlled from this box!
The last coal trains from the valleys passed through Pontypridd in May 2016.
Taken through the window of class 142 'Pacer' 142010 working the 13.36 Pontypridd-Treherbert service.
Taken whilst traveling on the excellent value for money £13 'Explore Cardiff & Valleys' Rail Ranger, this is one of the places i had never been to before and will probably never go back too.
28th March 2019