N.B. Llandrindod Wells No.1 Signal Box, originally opened in 1876 at Brookland Road level crossing, was closed in June 1986, subsequently dismantled and re-erected on the down platform of Llandrindod Wells railway station (nprn 54616) - see nprn 54617.
Llandrindod Wells No.1 Signal Box is a London and North Western Railway type 4 box dating from 1876. It has two storeys, built of brick to operating floor level with framed weatherboard above, under a pitched slated roof. There are three small iron windows to the locking room (ground floor), two to the rail frontage and one in the north gable wall, with a door in the south end wall. Over the door are external stairs to the first floor, which has large sliding sash windows to the rail frontage and both gable walls. The box was re-erected at this location in 1989 on the site of Llandrindod Wells No.2 Signal Box which closed in 1958 and was demolished. Following re-erection, No.1 Box was re-opened as a museum in 1990. The 17 lever frame is thought to date from 1906.
Sources include: Clift, T., The Central Wales Line, Ian Allan 1982, pp.50,88; Smith, M., Portrait of the Central Wales Line, Ian Allan 1995, p.85; Doughty, A., The Central Wales Line, Oxford Publishing 1997, pp.83,140; Peter Kay, Signalling Atlas and Signal Box Directory (Third Edition), Signalling Record Society, Wallasey, 2010, p.75; Network Rail, Signal Box Register (undated). For further information on the types and designs of signal boxes see: The Signalling Study Group, The Signal Box - A Pictorial History and Guide to Designs, OPC, 1986.
B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 14 March 2012.