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The first part of this book features Bargoed station and the junction of the Rhymney Railway with the Brecon and Merthyr to the north.

As the line climbs out of the Darran Valley the photographs well illustrate the isolated halts which existed on a bleak part of the Heads of the Valleys

Review: ‘Railways & Industry on the Brecon & Merthyr: Bargoed to Pontsticill, Pant to Dowlais Central’ by John Hodge and Ray Caston

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Books on the Line · @booksontheline
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A major traffic flow on the Brecon & Merthyr Railway was coal; this book gives brief histories of mines in the Darran valley.

Dowlais iron works features but there is little about the ICI ammonia works.

Review: ‘Railways & Industry on the Brecon & Merthyr: Bargoed to Pontsticill, Pant to Dowlais Central

booksontheline.com/?p=1847

#Wales #cymru #darran #bookreview

Last updated 2 years ago