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Welsh Railways Archive - Volume 3

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Volume 3 Number 10
Contents:
  • Plain tales from incline top - Part II
  • Industrial power
  • Winding-up at Lampeter
  • Miffordd
  • Anniversary pages - I; Elan valley centenary
  • Anniversary pages - II; Trevithick memorial
  • Four vans at Dymock, 1959
  • Dowlais ammonia tanks - an addendum
  • Rhydyfelin viaduct
  • A Barry 'J' to Brecon?
Volume 3 Number 9
Contents:
  • The Saga of the Manchester and Milford Railway
  • Nant Hall, LNWR
  • Tales from the Incline Top, TVR
  • Inspection at Rhydyfelin
  • Breakdown Train Proposals
  • The Cowbridge Mail
Volume 3 Number 8

25th Anniversary Issue

 Contents:
  • Genesis - the origins of the WRRC
  • Private Owner Propaganda - a variant PO livery
  • The Main Incline Revisited - some prodigious effort on the TVR
  • A Bridge Too Far - a proposed Severn crossing
  • Last Passengers at Dowlais Central
  • Oh no! Not Ammonia Tanks Again!
  • Spotlight on Talsarnau
  • August Bank Holiday, 65 years ago
  • TVR 10T Open Goods c,1886-87
  • A Walk Around Blaenavon
  • Lad Porter at Aberbran
  • MT&A Coaching Stock
  • Branches Fork to Branches Forgotten!
  • Kilvert's Railways
  • Battle Stations and Battle Waggons......
  • A Fitters' Notebook - II
  • Rhymney Railway 3-plank Dropside Waggon
  • Dovey Junction Memories
  • Railway Miscellany
  • The Barry Bit
Volume 3 Number 7
Contents:
  • The Cwmdu connection
  • Marshfield revisited
  • Two Saints
  • Nantlle railway
  • Collision in the blackout
  • The International railway index
  • Signalling update
  • The Barry bit
  • Conflict on the Blaenavon branch of the Port Talbot Railway
  • Strolling through the Rhondda tunnel
Volume 3 Number 6
Contents:
  • South Wales Signalling
  • Radyr in detail, Part 2
  • Poaching on the PTR
  • South Wales Mineral Railway
  • Last Saint in Cardiff
  • Last Train to Brecon
  • Cambrian 0-4-4T Locomotives
Volume 3 Number 5
Contents:
  • The Wye Bridge at Chepstow
  • More on Ammonia Traffic
  • Barry Steamers, Part 2
  • Radyr in detail
  • GWR 44xx in South Wales
  • Mill Street Fatality, 1870
Volume 3 Number 4
Contents:
  • Transport at Abercrave
  • LNWR Mainline Accident
  • Swansea Docks 1865 - an Update
  • Pant, Dowlais Recollections
  • Barry Steamers
  • Newport Puzzle
  • Rhiwbach Tramway
Volume 3 Number 3
Contents:
  • B&M Watering Facilities
  • Mid Wales Through Carriages
  • Dean Singles at Newport
  • First British Industrial Garratt
  • Swansea Docks 1865
  • Ammonia Traffic on the MT&A
  • Pentir Rhiw
  • On the Vale of Neath in 1865
  • A(N&SW)D&R 0-4-0ST ALEXANDRA - whither its origin?
  • From Neath to Neath via Upper Bank
  • From Our Own Correspondent - Overcrowded Trains
  • Deeds and Misdeeds - Crimes on the line
  • The Barry Bit - A police inspector mis-employs his staff
Volume 3 Number 2
Contents:
  • Mid Wales Through Carriages
  • Hull & Barnsley Coaches in South Wales
  • Cambrian Cameo - Moat Lane Junction
  • The Caerphilly Branch of the B&M
  • Clydach-on-Tawe North
  • LNWR Working Instructions at Ebbw Vale
  • Whoops! - A Mishap at Llantarnam Station
  • Tracking Railway Archives Project
  • Research for Modelling Mostyn
  • The Barry Bit - Distant Signals
Volume 3 Number 1

South Wales 150th anniversary issue

 Contents
  • The Grand Opening of the  SWR
  • The First Train - News reports of 1850
  • Contract 4N - The SWR’s Construction Manual
  • Passenger Traffic on the SWMR
  • Ferryside - A wayside signal box
  • Inspection of the SWR- From 'The Cambrian'
  • When the railway reached Newport
  • Landore Viaduct - An essay in wood
  • SWR Meat Vans
  • SWR Rolling Stock Drawings
  • The Swansea Terminus of the SWR
  • The Barry Bit - New facilities at Pwllgwaun