Survey Data
Reg No
15402531
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
In Use As
Level crossing
Date
1850 - 1860
Coordinates
232884, 246035
Date Recorded
30/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Pair of level crossing gates, erected c.1851, formerly serving the Midland and Great Western Railway Company's Mullingar to Athlone line. Comprises timber beams with wire mesh having early cast-iron fittings, including a cast-iron lamp and cast-iron diagonal bracing bars. Pedestrian gates to either end. Located between random rubble retaining walls with large capping stones. Located to the northwest of Castletown Station, adjacent to signal box (15402532).
Appraisal
A typical set of mid nineteenth-century level crossing gates, which retain their early form, character and a number of early cast-iron fittings. These gates were originally erected by the Midland and Great Western Railway Company, to serve the Mullingar to Galway line, which opened 1851 and closed in 1987. They form part of an interesting group of related structures at Castletown Station (15402530) and represent an integral element of the civil engineering and transport heritage of Westmeath.