Signal Box at Caersws Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 August 1991. Townhouse.
Signal Box at Caersws Railway Station
- WRENN ID
- low-rubble-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1991
- Type
- Townhouse
- OS grid reference
- SO 028 918
- Coordinates
- 52.51607, -3.43235
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The signal box at Caersws Railway Station is a small timber structure built on a low blue brick basement. It originally had a slate roof, which has since been replaced with corrugated iron. Access to the box is via an external timber stair from the platform on the northwest side, leading to a hooded glazed door at the top. The front and southeast gable end feature small-pane horizontally sliding windows that offer views along the railway line. A name board is positioned at the center, and the gable end has bargeboards with decorative undulating ornament, along with timber finials and pendants. The eaves overhang, and there is a red brick chimney.
Nearby, approximately 250 meters to the south, is an upper quadrant LMS pattern signal gantry, and about 85 meters to the north is a GWR pattern gantry with home and distant lower-quadrant semaphore signals.
This signal box is notable for retaining its original Dutton 18-lever frame, of which only four levers are currently in operation. These control the semaphore signals above and below the box and lock the crossing gates. The token box was removed in 1988.
Local climate
Signal Box at Caersws Railway Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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