Wenvoe Tunnel information

Wenvoe Tunnel is a disused tunnel on the defunct Barry Railway that runs under Culverhouse Cross in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales, on the western...

Wenvoe (Welsh: Gwenfô) is a village, community and electoral ward between Barry and Cardiff in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Nearby are the Wenvoe Transmitter...

to allow passenger trains to pass. To the north of the station was Wenvoe Tunnel, 1 mile and 108 yards long emerging just before Drope Junction. The...

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867-yard (1.061 mi; 1.707 km) Wenvoe tunnel is one of the longest railway tunnels in South Wales. Traffic ceased through the tunnel on 31 March 1963 due to...

Barry Railway line ran past the hamlet and entered the Wenvoe Tunnel just to the north near Wenvoe Quarry. It closed after a fire in 1963. A manor was held...

Wenvoe Quarry is a quarry located on the eastern edge of the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales, approximately 5 km (3 miles) southwest of Cardiff city centre...

 A473  to Ynysmaerdy South Wales Main Line Llantrisant St Fagans Wenvoe Tunnel South Wales Main Line Wenvoe Barry–Cardiff line Cadoxton Barry–Cardiff line...

double track. In August 1894 it was decided to make the track in Porthkerry Tunnel double track, and on 5 October the Board decided on double track from Barry...

coast and Penarth or directly via Dinas Powys) but the line via the Wenvoe Tunnel was used by trains to and from Porth via Pontypridd Graig from 1896...

Cross Interchange, older developments such as the Brooklands Retail Park, Wenvoe Retail Park and Valegate Retail Park, including Tesco and Marks & Spencer...

September 2016 until 21 October 2016 during the temporary closure of the Severn Tunnel. But due to the popularity of this service, Flybe decided that regular flights...

Penarth Marina. The Ely Subway is a closed pedestrian tunnel under the mouth of the Ely. The tunnel opened in 1900 replacing a chain ferry, and was used...

crossing over from down to up line near the former junction with the Cadoxton-Wenvoe-Pontypridd line. With the signal box out of action at Tynycaeau, the crossover...

Cymru National Eisteddfod in 2017. Television signals are received from the Wenvoe TV transmitter and the local relay transmitter situated in Llangeinor. Bridgend...

former main line to Pontypridd via Wenvoe...

Docks for restoration in the 1970s. One feature of Penarth Dock was the tunnel underpass that connected Penarth dock to Ferry Road Grangetown under the...

Leader became separate once more. In August 1952 the BBC transmitter at Wenvoe began broadcasting, allowing the Rhondda to receive television pictures...

Wales and ITV West Country on ITV1. Television signals are from either the Wenvoe TV transmitter, supplemented by a low power relay transmitter situated north...

Railway, also saw its commercial potential, and made a proposal to Jenner of Wenvoe Castle to build a dock at Barry, the largest in the district, which would...

Elizabeth II makes her first official visit to Wales as queen 1952 in Wales - Wenvoe television transmitter comes into service 1951 in Wales - Death of Ivor...

farm group (Upper House Farm) and then passes over Aberthaw Cement Work's tunnel-connected extensive blue lias limestone quarries and on to some woodland...

platform 1 previously being the Bay platform where trains to Pontypridd via Wenvoe or sometimes Cardiff started. That area is now a Park & Ride facility. Platform...

station buildings constructed in stone. The station was the nearest to the Wenvoe Iron Mine, which was active from 1859 to 1864 and generated significant...

The Post Office. Clive Romilly Hosken, Antenna Maintenance Supervisor, Wenvoe Transmitting Station, BBC. Derrick Howlett, Production Foreman, Rugby Cement...