Signal box at the wayside station of St Mary Church Road (nprn 416036) on the former Cowbridge and Aberthaw Railway of 1892, from 1895 the Taff Vale Railway's Aberthaw Branch, which closed in 1932. The box is a McKenzie & Holland type 3 (Taff Vale Railway) design. Although the station site is re-used for domestic and agricultural purposes, the station building and signal box (in poor condition) survive in situ.
Sources include: Field observation by B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 19 July 2014; Peter Kay, Signalling Atlas and Signal Box Directory (Third Edition), Signalling Record Society, Wallasey, 2010; 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, 10 July 2014.