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Welsh Railways Archive - Volume 4

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Volume 4 Index
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Volume 4 Number 10
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 Contents:
  • The Barry Bit - Barry Junction Signalbox destroyed by fire
  • Burning Welsh Steam Coal in Locomotive Engines - trials undertaken in 1857/58
  • Dolwen Bridges
  • A Race to Gwaun Cae Gurwen - additional thoughts and comments
  • The "Safety Movement" - Part II
  • An Old Bury Locomotive of the Rhymney Iron Company
  • Notes on the Rhymney Iron Company
  • Christmas Poultry Traffic Circular, 1914
  • The Ruthin & Cerrigdrudion Railway
  • A Second View of Dowlais Sleeper Works
  • Rhymney Railway Iron Ore and Rail Wagons
  • Taff Vale Railway 10T Goods Wagon - from "The Engineer" April 1892
  • Merthyr - Then and Now - a comparison between a pre-Grouping postcard and 1996
Volume 4 Number 9
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 Contents:
  • A White Veil over the Valleys
  • The "Safety Movement" - Part I
  • "On the Mineral Wagons of South Wales" - Slater's 1884 Paper to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
  • An Inspector Calls.........on the Vale of Towy Railway
  • "Guilty" is not Enough!
  • Une Annonce pour Powell Duffryn - Powell Duffryn in France
  • Opening of Treharris Passenger Station
  • A Race to the Gwaun Cae Gurwen Athracite Coalfield
  • An Engineman Remembers
  • Neath & Brecon Railway 2-4-0 Tender Engines
  • Dimbath - the Last Word?
  • Hours Worked by Barry Trainmen - a spat with the Board of Trade
Volume 4 Number 8
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 Contents:
  • The Barry Bit - Company Inter-operation
  • William Dean, the "Ladies" and South Wales
  • A supplement to Aberystwyth Excursions 1957
  • Rhymney Railway 6T Goods Brake Van - a Trefor Jones drawing
  • Rhyney Railway Goods Brake Vans - notes and models
  • Three Cocks Junction - a booking clerk's story
  • Cemetery Stations
  • Illegal Passenger Trains through Fochriw
  • Porthywaen Lime Co.Ltd
  • Gellyceidrim Colliery<>.
Volume 4 Number 7
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  • The Barry Bit - Fire at Llantwit Major
  • A Railway Clearing House Job 
  • Pontardawe Steelworks
  • R W Kidner and the Oakwood Press
  • The Reverend R Venables: railway Signalman
  • A Narrow Gauge Interlude
  • Brecon & Merthyr Trains  - Not for the Quick, but the Dead? 
  • Great Western 36xx 2-4-2Ts in South Wales
  • Gauge Narrowing Between Gloucester and Hereford
  • Dealing with Goods Trains and Broad Gauge Vehicles
  • The Mining Journal’s View of the Narrow Gauge in Wales
Volume 4 Number 6
Contents:
  • The Barry Bit - An unscheduled stop
  • Shropshire & Montgomery shire
  • Llanelly Harbour & Pontardulais Railway
  • The Shropshire Holiday Express
  • Rhondda & Swansea Bay Mix
  • Glyncorrwg Postcard
  • Taff Vale Connection
  • GWR 39xx in South Wales
  • Crossing the Severn
Volume 4 Number 5
Contents:
  • Transition at Barry 1920-1930 
  • B&M Waggons at GKN Steel Sleeper Works
  • The Digedi Brook Mishap
  • A Day at the Seaside - excursions to Aberystwyth in August 1957
  • Cardiff Railway Covered Goods Waggon - General Arrangement drawing and notes 
  • Dimbath revisited - 1. 
  • Caersws - the Cambrian Railways Village
  • A(N&SW)D&R ‘Regulations as to Private Owner Waggons’ 
  • Transcript of official document
  • My Time on the Rhondda Fach Branch
  • The South Wales Ironworks - A column from The Times of August 1879
  • Fatality near Fochriw - Board of Trade Accident Report of 1868
  • Dimbath Revisited - 2. 
Volume 4 Number 4
Contents:
  • The Press in the 1920s
  • Oswestry North End
  • Postcard from Waunlwyd
  • Burrows Siding Revisited and...... 
  • .... Moderator Sidings Revisted
  • Rhymney-built Covered Goods Waggons
  • The Dimbath Branch
  • Llanfyllin Branch Pt.II
Volume 4 Number 3
Contents:
  • London & South Wales Railway Scheme of 1824/25
  • More on Moderator Sidings
  • Worked, Not Absorbed -  the PTR’s working arrangements with the GWR 
  • Two for the B&M Modellers
  • Gwaith y Lamb Postscript 
  • The Barry Bit
  • Yet More About Class 14s
  • Brecon & Merthyr Railway 4-wheel Saloons
  • The Midland Interloper - Whitney-on-the-Wye’s bridge 
  • Burrows Boxes - Three signal boxes along Crumlin Burrows 
  • Taff Vale Traffic Miscellany -  1841 to 1896
  • Monmouthshire Mishaps -  On the Cwmnantddu branch 
  • Llanfyllin Branch
Volume 4 Number 2
Contents:
  • From our Own Correspondent - unearthed comments about the Rhymney Railway
  • Getting a Handle on Private Owner Waggons
  • Penmaenpool Ticket
  • The Barry Bit - Accidents at Barry Docks
  • Gwaith y Lamb - An industrial site at Garnant 
  • Holiday Traffic on the Cambrian
  • The Llangurig Branch
  • A Clutch of D95xx
  • Penarth - From coal to garden by the sea
  • A Busy Day at Kerry -  traffic on livestock market days
Volume 4 Number 1
Contents:
  • The Barry Bit - Supply of Locomotives, 1906
  • Cambrian Railways Saloon No.1
  • Out of the Cupboard - three news cuttings from the 1850s 
  • Llanbedr & Pensarn
  • Talyllyn Junction - Life and times of a country junction  
  • An Eclectic Mix -  isolated halts
  • D95xx Leave South Wales
  • D95xx History
  • Moderator Sidings, Newport