The QuakersYardandMerthyrRailway in South Wales was owned jointly by the Great Western Railwayand the Rhymney Railway. At its southern end, the line...
QuakersYardrailway station serves the village of Edwardsville in the community of Treharris, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. It is located on the Merthyr Tydfil...
QuakersYard or Quaker'sYard (Welsh: Mynwent y Crynwyr) is a village in the Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, situated where the Taff Bargoed Valley joins...
(1876) and the QuakersYardandMerthyr Joint line (1882). Although the Rhymney Railway network was never large, it was remarkably profitable, and paid...
Aberfan railway station served the village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. Opened by the QuakersYard & MerthyrRailway, a joint Great Western...
Abercanaid railway station served the village of Abercanaid, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. Opened by the QuakersYard & MerthyrRailway, a joint Great...
industries around Merthyr Tydfil and to connect them with docks in Cardiff. It was opened in stages in 1840 and 1841. In the railway's first years, the...
of the blast furnaces. The average gradient from Merthyr to Abercynon was 1 in 145. Near QuakersYard two timber bridges carried the line over the River...
The Brecon andMerthyr Tydfil Junction Railway (B&MR) was a railway company in Wales. It was originally intended to link the towns in its name. Finding...
The Merthyr line is a commuter railway line in South Wales from central Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare. The line is part of the Cardiff urban...
passengers on the new Merthyr Tramroad from Penydarren to QuakersYard. He also claims that this was the "first 'railway' and the work of George Stephenson...
The Vale of Neath Railway (VoNR) was a broad gauge railway company, that built a line from Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare to Neath, in Wales, mostly to transport...
435 mm), which later became standard gauge. As the railway companies sought to expand commercially and geographically, they wished to dominate areas of...
Victoria railway station. This section, originally built by the Llanelly Railwayand Dock Company to compete with the Great Western Railwayand break the...
Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales....
This "Penydarren Tramroad" (more correctly, the Merthyr Tramroad) was used for a trial of the first railway steam locomotive, built by Richard Trevithick...
open, and in 1951 it became the first railway in the world to be preserved as a heritage railway by volunteers. Since preservation, the railway has operated...
Western Railway. In the latter half of the 20th century the canal was restored in stages, largely by volunteers. After decades of dereliction and much restoration...
western section was sold to the Brecon andMerthyrRailway; the eastern section became part of the Mid-Wales Railway. In the following list the dates are:...
The passenger coaches of the Great Western Railway (GWR) were many and varied, ranging from four and six-wheeled vehicles for the original broad gauge...
Village. The rest of the site's extensive railwayyard was redeveloped on a mixed-use basis, some for housing and some for commercial buildings including...
railway station on the former Rumney Railway, which on amalgamation with the Brecon andMerthyr Tydfil Junction Railway was called Maesycwmmer & Hengoed....
end. Between Dduallt and the old tunnel, parts of the old railway formation can be clearly seen below the new route. The new 310-yard (280 m) tunnel was...
The Railway Station is an 1862 genre painting by the British artist William Powell Frith. It depicts a scene at the busy Paddington Station railway terminus...
Merthyr Tydfil railway station is a railway station serving the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. It is the terminus of the Merthyr branch of the Merthyr...
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