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Photo ELR Branch Subject Location M C Elev'n Date Time

BPM00051
  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    

BPM00052
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    

BPM00053
    British Railways motif (Penultimate version) On DMU at Barry Island East yard          

BPM00054
BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Yard layout (DMU refuelling facility & stabling) showing complex permanent way arrangement Barry Island East 8 75 SW    

BPM00055
BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Double trap points in turnout from No.4 platform Barry Island East 8 75 SW    

BPM00056
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    

BPM00057
  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    

BPM00058
  Grange Court & Hereford Station view showing road overbridge & goods loop (added after 1947) Ballingham 137 11 NW    

BPM00059
  Grange Court & Hereford Station viewed from road overbridge Fawley 136 21¼ NW    

BPM00060
  Grange Court & Hereford Single line Junction & 537 yard tunnel Fawley 136 21 SE    

BPM00061
CRY Cardiff Railway Single line junction to station loop) Whitchurch 2 30 East    

BPM00062
VOG Vale of Glamorgan Porthkerry bank looking towards Barry Porthkerry Park 1 33 South    

BPM00063
BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier View of Biglis Junction looking towards Dinas Powys Palmerston Road overbridge, Barry 5 62 South    

BPM00064
BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier 3-doll bracket semaphore assembly (Former Bay starting arm removed) Barry Cabin Signalbox 8 07 South    

BPM00065
BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Route indicating signal assembly Barry Van Siding 8 12 South    

BPM00066
BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier 4-doll bracket signal Barry Station 8 14 North    

BPM00067
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    

BPM00068
BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier 4-doll down homes bracket assembly East of Barry signal box 8 03 South    

BPM00069
BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier 4-doll down homes bracket assembly (Rear view) East of Barry signal box 8 07 North    

BPM00070
BRY Cardiff (General) & Barry Pier Lifted carriage shed tracks Barry 8 19 SE    

BPM00071
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    

BPM00072
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    

BPM00073
  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    

BPM00074
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    

BPM00075
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    

BPM00076
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    

BPM00077
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    

BPM00078
LTR Mwyndy Junction & Tonteg Junction Brofiscin branch ground frame Maesaraul Junction, Cross Inn 1 04 SW    

BPM00079
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    

BPM00080
CAM Cardiff (Bute Road) & Merthyr View of Radyr Junction showing extensive S&C in permanent way Radyr Station 5 22 West    

BPM00081
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    

BPM00082
CAM Cardiff (Bute Road) & Merthyr Pannier tank loco's at Radyr Station Radyr Station 5 23 South    

BPM00083
  Worcester & Bromyard Single line branch & fixed distant Brockhampton Siding, Bromyard 134 23 East    

BPM00084
  Worcester & Bromyard Single line branch & Brockhampton siding Bromyard East 134 23 West    

BPM00085
  Worcester & Bromyard Station from road overbridge Bromyard 135 08 West    

BPM00086
  Worcester & Bromyard Headshunt from road overbridge Bromyard 135 08¼ East    

BPM00087
  Cheltenham & Worcester General view of layout Ashchurch Junction (LMSR) 79 49 SW    

BPM00088
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    

BPM00089
  Birmingham & Gloucester General view of signal box, part of station, & partly-dismantled branch to Upton-on-Severn Ashchurch Junction (LMSR) 79 49 SE    

BPM00090
  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    

BPM00091
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    

BPM00092
VOG Vale of Glamorgan Original layout of west end of Barry Sidings with signal box when in full use Barry Sidings 0 49 West    

BPM00093
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    

BPM00094
  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    

BPM00095
  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    

BPM00096
VOG Vale of Glamorgan Porthkerry Bank viewed from rail overbridge & looking towards Porthkerry viaduct Porthkerry Park 1 19¼ East    

BPM00097
COB Llanharan Junction & Tondu Abandoned single line at Brynna road overbridge Brynnau Gwynion ~1 18 West    

BPM00098
COB Llanharan Junction & Tondu Abandoned single line at Brynna road overbridge Brynnau Gwynion  ~1  18 East    

BPM00099
  Merthyr Abandoned single line at rail overbridge East of Gelli Tarw Junction ~0 40 East    

BPM00100
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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