Llangollen historic railway station, The Station, Abbey Road , Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, UK, LL20 8SN

Image details
Contributor:
Tony SmithImage ID:
2JR3MNRFile size:
50.3 MB (3.6 MB Compressed download)Releases:
Model - no | Property - noDo I need a release?Dimensions:
5016 x 3504 px | 42.5 x 29.7 cm | 16.7 x 11.7 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
21 August 2022Location:
The Station, Abbey Road , Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, UK, LL20 8SNMore information:
. A grounded documentary photograph made at The Station, Abbey Road , Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, UK, LL20 8SN in 2022, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. The principal subject is Llangollen historic railway station, The Station, Abbey Road , Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, UK, LL20 8SN. The surrounding context encompasses adaptive reuse, period architecture, rail transport history, changing land use, rail corridor, local character, signal-box architecture, trackside history, place identity, town-centre renewal, rail operations, contemporary social history, freight wagon, and industrial railway. The modern context includes continuing discussion of network modernisation, signalling technology and the role of rail in lower-carbon regional transport. For current editorial use, commercial viability and construction costs provide additional context, especially through the value of reusing existing buildings rather than wholesale demolition. As a dated visual record of The Station, Abbey Road , Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, UK, LL20 8SN, the frame retains lettering, decoration and surface detail, making it especially useful if changed technology subsequently changes the scene. The photograph additionally reflects rail infrastructure, changing streetscape, local history, urban regeneration, mixed-use redevelopment, commercial redevelopment, built heritage, and heritage-led regeneration. References to historic, railway, Llangollen, Wales, and Denbighshire give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. The wider setting at The Station, Abbey Road , Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, UK, LL20 8SN matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. That local specificity strengthens the long-term documentary value of image 2JR3MNR.