 The cabin also contains the electric key token equipment to allow trains to pass here, in accordance with the railway's Block Working System.Around 6 p.m. on 10 June 1993, a heavy, although very localised, thunderstorm in the mountains to the south of Brynglas caused a flash flood down the Cwm Pandy valley, and much debris was deposited on the Pandy hamlet and station.In the passing loop west of the station a hedge was swept away by the flood, and the embankment was severely eroded.