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Index
for Volume 2 is also available, providing a comprehensive listing of
articles and subjects for this volume. The index is well illustrated in
its own right with photographs from the WRRC Stratton Collection.
Volume 2 index (in Adobe PDF format) is available here.
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Volume 2 Number 10
Contents:
Through carriage working of the Cambrian railways
A close shave at Bassaleg
Comings and goings at Tonmawr
Rhymney engineman
The Barry bit - Flour traffic and new wagons
East Glamorgan train service
Turn and turn about
Rock wood
From our own correspondent - extortionate coal rates
Volume 2 Number 9
Contents:
Rhymney engineman - part 2
A return ticket to Wind-street station
St. Mellons depot
Recollections of Tredegar
Taff Vale miscellany
Brecon to Ynisygeinon - part 2
The Barry bit - Horse play on the Barry
Wrexham branches passenger service notes
Volume 2 Number 8
Contents:
Brecon to Ynisygeinon - part 1
A hundred years at Cefn junction
Coal shipping at Cardiff
Rhymney engineman - part 1
Ferryside
The Monmouthshire railway's western valleys line
From our own correspondent
Wind street station, swansea
Roath branch south signal box
The Taff vale's stooge
Canton ease
Volume 2 Number 7
Contents:
Last train to Brymbo
Hurry Riches standard Rhymney Railway vans
The South Wales railway reaches Haverfordwest
The Taff Vale at Cardiff docks
On shed at Oswestry
Sparks in Snowdonia
Bute works supply Co.
By LNWR to Pembroke Dock
MT&A postcript
The Barry bit - a tale of two sheds
Volume 2 Number 6
Contents:
The early years of the Swansea Vale Railway
Cefntilla halt
The Rhosllanerchrugog branch of the GWR
Special train service to Rhos
The Taff Vale at Cardiff docks
Trefeinon station and the Hamer family
AD&R No.7 Pontypridd
The Barry bit - Fish at Barry
Volume 2 Number 5
Contents:
MT&A reminiscences
Berw viaduct
Brynmenyn
Gloucester wharf
Dastardly deeds...and dire discipline
Ystradgynlais and Yniscedwyn colliery sidings
History of the Penllwyn tramroad
Private platforms on the N&B
The Barry bit - No through trains from Bridgend to Cardiff
Ebbw junction postcript
The Burry Port & NW Jct. Railway
Volume 2 Number 4
Contents:
Midland in South Wales
Barlow rail - contemporary letters
The rise and fall of Ebbw juction
Porthkerry viaduct
The Burry Port & North Western Junction Railway
Rooms at Mostyn
Report of the Royal commission on coal, 1871
Volume 2 Number 3
Contents:
Rhondda & Swansea bay locomotives
The Midland in South Wales - part 1
Barlow rail on the South Wales Railway
Chepstow wagon works
The Barry bit - public celebrations at the opening of Barry docks
