Image Llysfaen signal box (LNW, 1868)
Llysfaen signal box (LNW, 1868)
Llysfaen signal box (LNW, 1868) A particularly early example of a L&NWR signal box is seen standing in the balmy summer sunshine at Llysfaen on the North Wales coast. Research identifies some debate over the date of construction varying from 1868 to 1870 but there is agreement that it was a Saxby and Farmer construction that had its original frame changed to a L&NWR standard tumbler example in 1902. When this photograph was taken it was switched out which seemed pretty common at the time with it closing just two years later in 1983. Another factor that may well have led to its demise was that the new A55 North Wales coast road was shoehorned in between the coastline and the railway directly behind the box with a huge bridge crossing the line at about this spot. Keywords: Llysfaen signal box L&NWR
Llysfaen signal box (LNW, 1868) A particularly early example of a L&NWR signal box is seen standing in the balmy summer sunshine at Llysfaen on the North Wales coast. Research identifies some debate over the date of construction varying from 1868 to 1870 but there is agreement that it was a Saxby and Farmer construction that had its original frame changed to a L&NWR standard tumbler example in 1902. When this photograph was taken it was switched out which seemed pretty common at the time with it closing just two years later in 1983. Another factor that may well have led to its demise was that the new A55 North Wales coast road was shoehorned in between the coastline and the railway directly behind the box with a huge bridge crossing the line at about this spot. Keywords: Llysfaen signal box L&NWR


A particularly early example of a L&NWR signal box is

seen standing in the balmy summer sunshine at Llysfaen on the North Wales coast. Research identifies some debate over the date of construction varying from 1868 to 1870 but there is agreement that it was a Saxby and Farmer construction that had its original frame changed to a L&NWR standard tumbler example in 1902. When this photograph was taken it was switched out which seemed pretty common at the time with it closing just two years later in 1983. Another factor that may well have led to its demise was that the new A55 North Wales coast road was shoehorned in between the coastline and the railway directly behind the box with a huge bridge crossing the line at about this spot.