Historical Railway Photograph Gallery 51-100
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Photos 51-100 |
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| Photo | ELR | Branch | Subject | Location | M | C | Elev'n | Date | Time |
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Gelli Tarw Junction & Merthyr | View of out-of-use single line & sand drag points showing overhead telegraph rig for locally-powered motored points & stop signal with arm removed | West of Rhydycar Junction | 5 | 33 | West | |||
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CAM | Cardiff (Queen Street) & Merthyr | 4-doll bracket semaphore assembly with 3 foot ringed arms & reverse-reading 4 foot stop arms | Roath Branch Junction | 3 | 61 | West | ||
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British Railways motif (Penultimate version) | On DMU at Barry Island East yard | |||||||
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BRY | Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier | Yard layout (DMU refuelling facility & stabling) showing complex permanent way arrangement | Barry Island East | 8 | 75 | SW | ||
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BRY | Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier | Double trap points in turnout from No.4 platform | Barry Island East | 8 | 75 | SW | ||
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ROS | Ross-on-Wye & Little Mill Junction | 256-yard tunnel at east end of station (Track lifted beyond buffer stop) | Usk Station | 25 | 14 | NE | ||
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Grange Court & Hereford | 1206-yard tunnel. Due to the curved gradient through this lengthy bore, the other end is not visible | Ballingham | 137 | 27 | SE | |||
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Grange Court & Hereford | Station view showing road overbridge & goods loop (added after 1947) | Ballingham | 137 | 11 | NW | |||
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Grange Court & Hereford | Station viewed from road overbridge | Fawley | 136 | 21¼ | NW | |||
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Grange Court & Hereford | Single line Junction & 537 yard tunnel | Fawley | 136 | 21 | SE | |||
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CRY | Cardiff Railway | Single line junction to station loop) | Whitchurch | 2 | 30 | East | ||
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VOG | Vale of Glamorgan | Porthkerry bank looking towards Barry | Porthkerry Park | 1 | 33 | South | ||
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BRY | Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier | View of Biglis Junction looking towards Dinas Powys | Palmerston Road overbridge, Barry | 5 | 62 | South | ||
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BRY | Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier | 3-doll bracket semaphore assembly (Former Bay starting arm removed) | Barry Cabin Signalbox | 8 | 07 | South | ||
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BRY | Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier | Route indicating signal assembly | Barry Van Siding | 8 | 12 | South | ||
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BRY | Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier | 4-doll bracket signal | Barry Station | 8 | 14 | North | ||
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VOG | Vale of Glamorgan | Former Barry Junction up home bracket signals. The top arm, right-hand bracket, survives (2001) | A4055 Harbour Road road overbridge, Barry | 0 | 07 | NW | ||
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BRY | Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier | 4-doll down homes bracket assembly | East of Barry signal box | 8 | 03 | South | ||
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BRY | Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier | 4-doll down homes bracket assembly (Rear view) | East of Barry signal box | 8 | 07 | North | ||
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BRY | Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier | Lifted carriage shed tracks | Barry | 8 | 19 | SE | ||
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BRY | Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier | Carriage siding double 3-foot arm signal assembly with reduced night aspects (i.e. partly-masked spectacles) | Former carriage shed sidings, Barry (A housing complex was established here in year 2000) | 8 | 19 | SE | ||
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BRY | Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier | New 2-doll bracket signal (Further modified after 1970 & left-side doll heightened & arm motorised). A new electric point motor with detection & facing-point lock is visible to the left of the signal base. | Barry Island Curve | 8 | 21 | South | ||
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Bassaleg Junction & Rhymney | View of station from road overbridge, showing double junction branch to Caerphilly far left, which further split into two single routes to Gwernydomen to re-merge as double track before reaching Caerphilly | Machen | 4 | 78 | East | |||
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LTO | Waterhall | Single line branch from Waterhall Junction to Common Branch Junction (Serving Creigiau Quarry). The double track viaduct in the distance carried the double-tracked Penrhos branch. Just beyond the viaduct, at 4M 66C, the former Crofft-y-Guinea siding branched off the single line, towards the camera point, to the left as viewed, passed under the viaduct & terminated alongside the road to the left of camera point. It was used extensively during the second world war to serve as a rail supplies service point for the former Rhydlafar Hospital which was tied up with the American occupation in Britain | Road overbridge south of former Crofft-y-Guinea siding (later St.Fagans Road siding) | 4 | 78 | West | ||
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LTO | Waterhall | Single line branch viewed from road overbridge, looking towards Capel Llanilterne | Road overbridge south of former Crofft-y-Guinea siding (later St. Fagans Road siding) | 4 | 78 | East | ||
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HRD | Halls Road | West portal of 239-yard Penar tunnel (From 4M 42C to 4M53C), viewed from inside | Penar Junction (tunnel ran from 4M 42C to 4M 53C) | 4 | 57 | East | ||
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CAM | Cardiff (Bute Road) & Merthyr | View of double junction. A housing estate now lies to the left of the down main (Second line from right) | Roath Branch Junction | 3 | 65 | West | ||
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LTR | Mwyndy Junction & Tonteg Junction | Brofiscin branch ground frame | Maesaraul Junction, Cross Inn | 1 | 04 | SW | ||
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LTR | Mwyndy Junction & Tonteg Junction | View of Brofiscin branch double trap. This was worked in conjunction with the branch points & a ground-frame released by Annetts key | Maesaraul Junction, Cross Inn | 1 | 05 | SW | ||
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CAM | Cardiff (Bute Road) & Merthyr | View of Radyr Junction showing extensive S&C in permanent way | Radyr Station | 5 | 22 | West | ||
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CAM | Cardiff (Bute Road) & Merthyr | View of Radyr Junction from footbridge, showing bracket semaphore signal assemblies & permanent way S&C. All semaphore signalling was removed in 1998 & replaced by a new MAS installation in conjunction with the abolition of LLandaf Loop Junction, Radyr & Maesmawr signal boxes | Radyr Station | 5 | 22¼ | West | ||
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CAM | Cardiff (Bute Road) & Merthyr | Pannier tank loco's at Radyr Station | Radyr Station | 5 | 23 | South | ||
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Worcester & Bromyard | Single line branch & fixed distant | Brockhampton Siding, Bromyard | 134 | 23 | East | |||
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Worcester & Bromyard | Single line branch & Brockhampton siding | Bromyard East | 134 | 23 | West | |||
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Worcester & Bromyard | Station from road overbridge | Bromyard | 135 | 08 | West | |||
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Worcester & Bromyard | Headshunt from road overbridge | Bromyard | 135 | 08¼ | East | |||
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Cheltenham & Worcester | General view of layout | Ashchurch Junction (LMSR) | 79 | 49 | SW | |||
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CAR | Cardiff (Stonefield Junction) & Rhymney | View of track curve & down main starting signal for Wernddu signal box. Cherry Orchard down motored semaphore distant signal is visible beyond | Road overbridge, south-east of former Wernddu signal box, Caerphilly | 7 | 34 | NW | ||
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Birmingham & Gloucester | General view of signal box, part of station, & partly-dismantled branch to Upton-on-Severn | Ashchurch Junction (LMSR) | 79 | 49 | SE | |||
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Upton-upon-Severn | East portal of 420-yard Mythe tunnel (from 2M 39¾C to 2M 58¾C). Now bricked up and privately owned. | The Mythe, Tewkesbury | 2 | 39 | SE | |||
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VOG | Vale of Glamorgan | West portal of 545-yard Porthkerry No.1 tunnel (from 0M 53C to 0M 77C). The aerial telegraph rig which used to pass overground through the Barry Garden Suburb area above the tunnel, had by this time been terminated at each end of the tunnel & routed via termination cabinets & multipair cable through the tunnel | Porthkerry Park | 0 | 79 | SW | ||
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VOG | Vale of Glamorgan | Original layout of west end of Barry Sidings with signal box when in full use | Barry Sidings | 0 | 49 | West | ||
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VOG | Vale of Glamorgan | Layout of west end of Barry Sidings after abolition of signal box & with just up & down main with down freight loop remaining | Barry Sidings | 0 | 49 | West | ||
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Park Junction & Tredegar | View looking from light vehicle overbridge towards Gelligroes Junction when former LMSR line was in full use between Nine Mile Point & Tredegar | North west of former Wyllie colliery | ~11 | 65 | South | |||
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Park Junction & Tredegar | Curve from Pontllanfraith High Level to Tredegar Junction Lower (former LMSR line) | North-east of Tredegar Junction Lower (LMSR line) | ~11 | 38 | NW | |||
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VOG | Vale of Glamorgan | Porthkerry Bank viewed from rail overbridge & looking towards Porthkerry viaduct | Porthkerry Park | 1 | 19¼ | East | ||
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COB | Llanharan Junction & Tondu | Abandoned single line at Brynna road overbridge | Brynnau Gwynion | ~1 | 18 | West | ||
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COB | Llanharan Junction & Tondu | Abandoned single line at Brynna road overbridge | Brynnau Gwynion | ~1 | 18 | East | ||
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Merthyr | Abandoned single line at rail overbridge | East of Gelli Tarw Junction | ~0 | 40 | East | |||
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VON | Neath General & Pontypool Road | Double line at A465 Heads of Valleys road overbridge | New Heads of Valleys A465 road overbridge, West of Gelli Tarw Junction | 25 | 10 | West | ||
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