Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north shore of the Bristol Network approximately 9 miles (14 kilometres) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with attractions including several coastlines the resurrected Barry Island Enjoyment Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 estimate information, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the 3rd largest town in Wales, after Wrexham and Merthyr Tydfil. Once a little town, Barry has actually absorbed its bigger neighbouring towns of Cadoxton as well as Barry Island, and also now, Sully. It expanded dramatically from the 1880s with the advancement of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the biggest coal port worldwide. The place was potentially called after Saint Baruc. Barry is the management centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, and also house to Barry Community United F.C. The roadway from Bonvilston was initially the B4266, as just Pontypridd Road within the town still is, and the roadway from Emphasize Park throughout the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as beyond Cardiff International Airport it still is. Considering that the 1970s, parts of these roadways are numbered A4226, with the result that the A4226 radiates from Weycock Cross roundabout in three directions. The town is usually connected with Woodham Brothers scrapyard, a service that assisted over 200 steam locomotives survive right into conservation. Although still a port, Barry is even more of a production town and as a service centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks and also the adjacent industrial park create the largest employment centre in the community. The anchors, whose road links were dramatically boosted with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, currently have straight road access with the M4 motorway. The anchors can deal with vessels as much as 23,000 tonnes and the top-notch tidal placement close to the deep-water network of the Severn Estuary, enables set up cruisings. With its transit sheds, warehouses as well as open storage space, the docks are furnished to take care of bulk freights yet with the ditching of their previous electrical cranes, ships' own derricks need to be used or cranes employed in by ABP as required. 2 roll on/roll off berths are offered and also have been used by paths to Ireland and West Africa. As at January 2016, Intermodal raifreight traffic is being run from No. 2 Dock. With a new visibility on the Mole in No. 1 Dock and the stipulation of a concrete slipway from it, recreation rowing as well as dinghy sailing is readily available (2016 ). Most of commercial companies lie in the dock area. The biggest are the chemical creating problems such as Cabot Carbon and Dow Corning who recently finished the advancement of the largest silicones plant in Europe. Various other main employers in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding and Design, Bumnelly, and Associated British Ports Holdings who, considering that 1982 have run the anchors as followers to the British Transport Docks Board. To the west of Barry is Porthkerry Park. This is a large area of open space, with woodlands, streams, as well as accessibility to a pebbly coastline. In the park is the previous Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 curved spans standing 110 feet high. Adhering to the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to passengers in between Barry as well as Bridgend in 1964, it was reopened on 10 June 2005 as well as for a lot of its 19 miles, provides a scenic view and link to Llantwit Major as well as beyond to Bridgend.