A profile of the Brecon and Merthyr Railway as it passes through different landscapes in its middle section.

For historical and locomotive information about the railway, however, you will need to also buy Book 1.

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

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Fascinating 1905 Railway Clearing House map of Merthyr and Dowlais showing the mix of intense competition and cooperation between companies for lucrative heavy goods traffic.

No fewer than five companies served Merthyr, either individually or jointly!

The severe geographic constraints created some odd bedfellows as railways compromised to gain a share of the traffic.

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