Barry is a community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coast of the Bristol Network roughly 9 miles (14 km) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with tourist attractions including several beaches the resurrected Barry Island Pleasure Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 price quote information, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the third biggest community in Wales, after Wrexham as well as Merthyr Tydfil. Once a small village, Barry has actually absorbed its larger neighbouring villages of Cadoxton and Barry Island, and now, Sully. It grew substantially from the 1880s with the growth of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the largest coal port on the planet. The location was perhaps named after Saint Baruc. Barry is the management centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, as well as house to Barry Community United F.C. The roadway from Bonvilston was initially the B4266, as just Pontypridd Road within the town still is, as well as the road from Emphasize Park right through the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as past Cardiff International Airport terminal it still is. Because the 1970s, parts of these roads are phoned number A4226, with the result that the A4226 radiates from Weycock Cross roundabout in 3 instructions. The town is frequently related to Woodham Brothers scrapyard, an organisation that assisted over 200 steam engines make it through into conservation. Although still a port, Barry is even more of a manufacturing town and as a service centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks as well as the adjacent enterprise zone create the largest work centre in the community. The docks, whose road links were drastically improved with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, currently have straight roadway access with the M4 freeway. The docks can manage vessels as much as 23,000 tonnes as well as the first-rate tidal placement close to the deep-water network of the Severn Estuary, enables set up sailings. With its transportation sheds, stockrooms and also open storage, the docks are equipped to deal with mass freights however with the ditching of their former electrical cranes, ships' very own derricks have to be used or cranes hired in by ABP as called for. Two roll on/roll off berths are available as well as have been made use of by routes to Ireland and West Africa. As at January 2016, Intermodal raifreight traffic is being run from No. 2 Dock. With a new existence on the Mole in No. 1 Dock and also the provision of a concrete slipway from it, recreation rowing as well as rowboat sailing is available (2016 ). The majority of commercial firms are located in the dock area. The biggest are the chemical producing problems such as Cabot Carbon and Dow Corning that not long ago finished the development of the biggest silicones plant in Europe. Various other major companies in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding and also Design, Bumnelly, as well as Associated British Ports Holdings that, given that 1982 have run the docks as successors to the British Transport Docks Board. To the west of Barry is Porthkerry Park. This is a large area of open space, with timberlands, streams, and access to a pebbly coastline. In the park is the former Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 arched spans standing 110 feet high. Following the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to guests between Barry as well as Bridgend in 1964, it was resumed on 10 June 2005 and for a lot of its 19 miles, supplies a scenic view and link to Llantwit Major and past to Bridgend.