If there was ever a prize for the signal box with the longest name this could well win it! Croesnewyedd North Fork signal box or Croes Newydd North Fork, to give its alternative name, is a fine and substantial Type 27c GWR box opened around 1906. It is still extant at the time of writing in 2022 but has lost a lot of its classic looks due to plastification, the control of the wooden crossing gates and all of the semaphores having had a Unipart entrance-exit signalling panel in 2009. The road that crosses the line here is named Watery Road and is a particularly busy place for a level crossing as it leads to the huge Wrexham Maelor hospital
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