Barry Island (Welsh: Ynys y Barri) is a district and peninsula forming part of the town of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is named after the 6th century Saint Baruc. Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... Local government areas called districts are used, or have been used, in several countries. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Barry (Welsh: ) is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. ... For other uses, see Vale of Glamorgan (disambiguation). ... This article is about the country. ... This Buddhist stela from China, Northern Wei period, was built in the early 6th century. ... Saint Baruc (also known as Barruc or, in modern Welsh, Barrwg) was a 6th century Welsh saint who gave his name to the town of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales. ...

The peninsula was an island until the 1880s when it was linked to the mainland as the town of Barry expanded. This was partly due to the opening of Barry Dock by the Barry Railway Company. Established by David Davies the docks now link up the gap which used to form Barry Island. On Barry Docks, the original dock offices are now used by the county council. The dock offices themselves are one of just a handful of buildings in the world classed as calendar buildings. The dock offices has four grand fire places and clocks on its roof, to represent the four seasons, 52 rooms for every week of the year and a grand 365 windows.^{[citation needed]} // Development and commercial production of electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings. ... The Barry Railway Company was promoted by interests in coal mining and steel in the South Wales valleys as an alternative to the existing rail service to Cardiff docks in Tiger Bay. ...

There is a railway station still to access the island at Barry Docks, there is also a heritage rail station which still homes original refurbished steam passenger trains. The rail is always open to the public and annually holds events involving a large steam engine replica of Thomas the Tank Engine. Barry Docks railway station is a railway station serving the town of Barry in South Wales, more centrally located than Barry station. ... // The term steam engine may also refer to an entire railroad steam locomotive. ... Thomas the Tank Engine. ...

The Evolution ride

Barry Island is now known for its beach and Barry Island Pleasure Park. The island used to house a Butlins Holiday camp, which was used as for filming scenes in the "Shangri-La" holiday camp from the Doctor Who serial Delta and the Bannermen. The camp has since been dismantled due to health and safety problems. The site was redeveloped for housing, but the island was once again used for location shooting in the 2005 series episodes The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, standing in for a bomb site in 1941 London. The Beach in Calella, Spain. ... Barry Island Pleasure Park is situated in the Vale of Glamorgan about 10 miles south of the capital city Cardiff, South Wales, UK. Thousands of children and adults still enjoy a day out at Barry Island. ... Butlins Holiday Camps were founded by (later Sir) Billy Butlin to provide economical holidays in the United Kingdom and Ireland. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, (and a 1996 television movie). ... Delta and the Bannermen is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from November 2 to November 16, 1987. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Empty Child is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on May 21, 2005. ... The Doctor Dances is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on May 28, 2005. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Barry also has its own castle near Romily Park.

The railway station is the home of both the national services of Arriva Trains Wales, as well as the preserved Vale of Glamorgan Railway. In the 1970s and 1980s Barry was home to hundreds of British Rail steam locomotives that were being scrapped. Many were sold to preservation societies, but in the late 1980s most were destroyed. Barry Docks railway station is a railway station serving the town of Barry in South Wales, more centrally located than Barry station. ... Arriva Trains Wales (Welsh: ) is a train operating company that operates urban and inter urban passenger services in Wales and the Welsh Marches. ... The Vale of Glamorgan Railway is a heritage railway based at Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. ... Logo of British Rail British Railways (BR), later rebranded as British Rail, ran the British railway system from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies in 1948 until its privatisation in stages between 1994 and 1997. ...

The island itself has a railway station which serves as one of the termini on the Vale of Glamorgan Line. Barry Island railway station is a railway station serving the town of Barry Island in South Wales. ... The Vale of Glamorgan Line is a railway line in South Wales from Cardiff to Bridgend via Barry, Rhoose and Llantwit Major. ...

External links

• Whitmore Bay Surf Life Saving Club : Voluntary Lifeguard Service at Barry Island
• Photograph Gallery of Whitmore Bay, Barry Island
• ButlinsBarryIsland.com : The history of the Barry Island Holiday Camp

Coordinates: 51°24′N, 3°16′W Whitmore Bay Surf Life Saving Club, or Whitmore Bay SLSC, is a surf lifesaving club in Wales, UK. Whitmore Bay SLSC was established in 2003 and is based at Barry Island on the South coast of Wales. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...