Abutments to overbridge/ loading bay on the former Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 October 1998. Railway infrastructure.
Abutments to overbridge/ loading bay on the former Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway
- WRENN ID
- calm-footing-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bridgend
- Constituency
- Bridgend MP: Chris Elmore (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 October 1998
- Type
- Railway infrastructure
- Address
- Abutments to overbridge/ loading bay on the former Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway, Goetre-Hen, Llangynwyd Lower
- OS grid reference
- SS 888 852
- Coordinates
- 51.5551, -3.60531
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The structure consists of the abutments to an overbridge and loading bay on the former Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway. The tramway features a standard 5-meter wide reservation, laid out to follow the 90-meter contour and winding through Coed Tondu, with three sharp bends. The flank walls of the former overbridge, which forms the loading bay, are made up of two 3.0-meter high rubble walls on either side of the track. These walls are flattened at the top to support transverse rails, which are now missing, that would have carried trucks coming directly from the drift mine located approximately 19 meters to the west. Originally, laden trucks emerging from the pit would discharge directly through front or back openings into the trucks of the Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl tramway below.
Local climate
Abutments to overbridge/ loading bay on the former Duffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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