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Legend
MT&AR to Beaufort
MT&AR to Abergavenny
To Nantyglo
Brynmawr
Waen Avon Slope Siding
Waen Nantyglo Colliery
New Clydach Colliery
Waenavon
Milfraen Colliery
Garn-yr-Erw Halt
Whistle Inn Halt
Furnace Sidings
Down Exchange Sidings
Up Exchange Sidings
Big Pit Halt
Tyre Mill Sidings
Blaenavon High Level
Varteg Hill Collieries (Viponds)
Varteg
Garndiffaith
Garndiffaith Viaduct
To Golynos Colliery
Abersychan and Talywain
GWR to Pontypool Crane Street
The Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway was a railway line in South Wales, within the historic boundaries of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, originally built in 1866 and immediately leased to the London and North Western Railway to transport coal to the Midlands via the Heads of the Valleys line. The line was completed in the late eighteen sixties and the LNWR were operating passenger trains over the line by 1872. Eight years later it was extended to meet the Great Western Railway at Abersychan & Talywain. Here the line carried on down the valley through Pontypool Crane Street railway station to the coast at Newport. In 1922 the LNWR was grouped into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. In later years the line saw a variety of GWR locomotives operating from pit to port; however, the railway retained its LNWR infrastructure up until the last days before its closure.
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