Hunslet 18 Inch 0-6-0ST Eastmoor Steelworks No. 18 'Jessie' runs round the train at Blaenavon High Level
Locale
Blaenavon
Terminus
Blaenavon High Level
Commercial operations
Name
Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway
Original gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Preserved operations
Operated by
Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway Company Ltd
Stations
4
Length
3.5 miles (5.6 km)
Preserved gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Commercial history
Opened
1866
1922
Absorbed by London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Closed
1941
Preservation history
1983
Taken over by the preservation society
2004
Work starts on extension to Blaenavon High Level
2010
Opening of extension to Blaenavon High Level
2011
Opening of extension to Big Pit Halt
2013
P&BR marks 30 years of running (and operating services along) the line
2015
The Little Engine That Could Events
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Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway
Legend
Phase 1
to Beaufort
Merthyr, Tredegar and
Abergavenny Railway
to Abergavenny
Brynmawr
Waenavon
Milfraen Pit
Garn-yr-Erw
Whistle Inn Halt
Furnace Sidings
Loco sheds
Rolling stock shed
Big Pit Halt
Blaenavon High Level
Varteg Hill Colliery
Varteg
Garndiffaith
(Six Bells Halt)
Garndiffaith Viaduct
Abersychan and Talywain
Big Arch
Pentwyn Halt
Pentrepiod Halt
Cwmnantddu Viaduct
Cwmffrwdoer Halt
Ffrwdoer Viaduct
Wainfelin Halt
to Pontypool Crane Street
The Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Pont-y-pŵl a Blaenafon) is a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) volunteer-run heritage railway in South Wales, running trains between a halt platform opposite the Whistle Inn public house (famed for its collection of miners' lamps) southwards to the town of Blaenavon via a two-platform station at the site of former colliery furnace of the Big Pit National Coal Museum.[1]
The line is the highest preserved standard-gauge line in the United Kingdom,[2] and also uniquely having the only standard-gauge rail-over-rail bridge within preservation.[3]
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