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Absorbed Railway Companies of the GWR

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    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    The Barry Railway Company was a railway and docks company in South Wales, first incorporated as the Barry Dock and Railway Company in 1884. It arose out of frustration among Rhondda coal owners at congestion and high charges at Cardiff Docks as well the monopoly held by the Taff Vale Railway in transporting coal from the Rhondda. In addition, the Taff Vale did not have the required capacity for the mineral traffic using the route, leading to lengthy delays in getting to Cardiff.
    It opened its main line from Trehafod in the Rhondda to Barry in 1889 and its first dock was opened in the same year, with modern loading equipment. It was immediately successful and minerals carried increased year on year, so that by 1910 it had overtaken Cardiff as the largest export point of South Wales coal. Later it built costly branches to connect to the Rhymney and Brecon & Merthyr Railways.
    Although chiefly a mineral railway, it ran a suburban passenger service from Barry to Cardiff. After 1918 the South Wales coal industry declined and the Barry Railway suffered accordingly. After the grouping of the railways in 1922 the Great Western Railway sought rationalisation, and the main line of the Barry Railway, which duplicated the ex-Taff Vale main line between Trefforest and Trehafod, was 'run down', the passenger service via Tonteg Junction to Trehafod & Porth being terminated between Tonteg Junction and Hafod Junction in 1930 but freight traffic continued until June 1951, the line from Tonteg Junction via the Graig tunnel and station having been singled in its twilight years. Thus all traffic from June 1951 ran to Pontypridd and beyond via the Tonteg Junction-Treforest Junction section from Barry or Llantrisant. Track was thus lifted later between Tonteg Junction and Trehafod (Hafod Junction). The line from Barry to Cogan, near Penarth, is in use at the present day carrying a busy passenger service to Cardiff and valleys

    I have added a new collection of photos of the Barry Railway locos
    Mainly all tank engines of various guises but includes one tender engine
    1390 unknown location ex Barry Railway Class D 0-8-0 Acquired by Barry Railway March 1897
    https://tinyurl.com/jawz9xd4
    and some built in the USA
    117 Unknown location Barry Railway class K 0-6-2T built by Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works of Paterson, New Jersey USA in 1899
    https://tinyurl.com/2hfuvmkz

    Full collection starts here
    https://tinyurl.com/4ydzsjna

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    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    The Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway (BP&GVR) was a mineral railway company that constructed a railway line in Carmarthenshire, Wales, by conversion of a canal, to connect collieries and limestone pits to the sea at Kidwelly. It extended its network to include Burry Port, Trimsaran and a brickworks at Pwll, later extending to Sandy near Llanelli. For a time the company worked the separate Gwendraeth Valleys Railway. The BP&GVR was notable because of the very low height of some overbridges, a legacy of the canal conversion.

    It was completely dependent on the economy of the mineral industries it served and due to depression in them, it was for many years in administration. In the final years of the nineteenth century those industries developed considerably and the fortunes of the BP&GVR improved as well, paying 10% dividends for several years, before absorption by the Great Western Railway in 1922.

    For some time the line carried miners to their place of work, and their families to market, and from 1913 the Company carried the general public in passenger trains.

    After 1945 mineral extraction in the area declined steeply; passenger operation ceased in 1953, and in the 1960s most of the network closed progressively as pits closed. The final short section at Kidwelly closed in 1998.

    Including this photo of
    5 Cwm Mawr 0-6-0ST built by Avonside Engine Company (name removed in 1929) renumbered 2195 b y the GWR
    https://tinyurl.com/we8fcmaj
    & in GWR era
    2195 (former Cym Mar) Swindon stock shed 23rd July 1939
    https://tinyurl.com/bv9kynsm
    Full collection of GWR era starts here with
    2166 at Danygraig July 1953 Hudswell Clarke design for Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley
    https://tinyurl.com/8296ukua

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    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    I have added over 45 new photos of ex Taff Vale Railway locomotives
    Including Class 04
    203 & 208 Cardiff Canton 19th June 1949 Hurry Riches Taff Vale Class O4
    https://tinyurl.com/3cwy4pv6
    Class A
    322 works shunter Swindon works 24th April 1955 Cameron Taff Vale Class A design
    https://tinyurl.com/46328vtc
    Class M1
    552 Swindon dump 25th April 1932 ex Taff Vale Railway M1 class 0-6-2T
    https://tinyurl.com/253s9jke
    Class U1
    593 Swindon works 24th April 1932 Taff Vale Railway U1 class 0-6-2T
    https://tinyurl.com/4e3s89mc
    1342 Swindon c1926 ex Taff Vale Railway Hudswell Clarke & Co Ltd S class 0-4-0ST
    https://tinyurl.com/2usrbacn

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    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    I have added over 40 new photos of Cambrian Railway locos, former ones absorbed by the GWR
    Also included are the former Cambrian Railway Narrow Gauge locos
    Included is
    893 at Oswestry ex Cambrian Railways Beyer, Peacock & Co. 0-6-0 built 1908 in B.R. livery
    https://tinyurl.com/s44ammxn
    Cambrian era locos start here
    https://tinyurl.com/3jr8db74
    GWR era start here
    https://tinyurl.com/yhe3bjpc
    822 The Earl Beyer-Peacock design for Cambrian Railways, Welshpool & Llanfair Section, 2' 6 gauge railway
    https://tinyurl.com/3vzfmyk7
    B.R. era starts here
    https://tinyurl.com/jaj5zbcm

    Neil
     
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    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    I have added a collection of photos of assorted ex Cardiff Railway locos
    Including this photo of

    155 is passed by 38 at Cherry Orchard sidings 17th May 1952 Cardiff Railway design CR-1 Class 0-6-2T
    https://tinyurl.com/3vp8ckf4
    full collection starts here with
    153 Swindon 1931 ex Cardiff Railway 0-6-2T built by Kitson & Son
    https://tinyurl.com/3pvhe8r2
    to
    684 unknown location ex Cardiff Railway (ex Hudswell Clark 0-6-0ST) rebuilt by GWR as 0-6-0PT
    https://tinyurl.com/42b38avy
    to
    1338 unknown shed location Kitson design for Cardiff Railway 0-4-0ST
    https://tinyurl.com/yaus3pf7

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    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    I have added a collection of photos of assorted ex Rhymney Railway locos
    Including this photo of
    83 in the snow passing Heath Jct with D4 working Hengoed Jct to Stonefield Jct 14th January 1955 Hurry Riches Rhymney Railway RRP Class

    https://tinyurl.com/yup899fk
    over 85 new photos start here with
    35 (last of class) Swindon works dump 23rd February 1958 Hurry Riches Rhymney Railway R1 development of Class R 0-6-2T
    https://tinyurl.com/dbj2px2m
    to 36 Heath Jct in the snow 2nd February 1954 D2 Cwm Bargoed to Cardiff docks Rhymney Railway R1 class 0-6-2T
    https://tinyurl.com/frb7f64u
    to 39 Cardiff East Dock 6th July 1952 Rhymney Railway R class 0-6-2T (fitted with a GWR 5600 class boiler)
    https://tinyurl.com/uas8z7fs
    to 43 Cherry Orchard 31st March 1956 D2 Cwm Bargoed to Cardiff docks Rhymney Railway R1 class 0-6-2T
    https://tinyurl.com/3kj7fhvw
    to 69 unknown location c1936 Hurry Riches Rhymney Railway development of Class A
    https://tinyurl.com/uj9kaazn
    to 90 Cardiff East dock shed 22nd July 1951 Hurry Riches Rhymney Railway Class S1 design.
    https://tinyurl.com/t8u3fbsu

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    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    I have added a collection of photos of assorted ex M&SWJR locomotives
    Only 3 locos survived into British Railways ownership in 1948. These three became GWR/BR numbers 1334, 1335, 1336.
    Including this 1952 rail tour photo of
    1335 Moreton in Marsh SLS Shipston Branch rail tour 31-8-52 Dubs design for M&SWJ Railway
    https://tinyurl.com/4wv7wsxx
    &
    1335 Shipston on Stour SLS Shipston Branch rail tour 31-8-52 Dubs design for M&SWJ Railway
    https://tinyurl.com/5ee5er9v

    Many different tender & tank engine photos start here
    https://tinyurl.com/4jr7uvsv
    to
    https://tinyurl.com/stbtxcds

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    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    I have added a collection of photos of assorted ex Alexandra Dock & Railway Co locos
    Including these Hawthorn Leslie 2-6-2T design for Alexandra Docks & Railway Co.
    1205 Cardiff Canton shed 1950 Hawthorn Leslie 2-6-2T design for Alexandra Docks & Railway Co.
    https://tinyurl.com/y86mshph
    Full collection of assorted designs starts here
    https://tinyurl.com/ycxrez45


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    I have added some new photos to the collection of Former Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway locos
    Starting here with
    2194 Kidwelly at Taunton 6th November 1951 ex Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway 0-6-0ST
    https://tinyurl.com/4h98srwb


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