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I've been trying to install this route but I'm having trouble with the Wotawallys Bits requirements as the site is password protected.

Travelled from Cardiff (Heath Halt) to 3 Cocks Junction in 1961 on this line, for the Welsh Jamboree (Boy Scouts) at Gwernyfed Park. I was 13 but I remember so well going up the incline past the reservoirs.

Recon you can do the old newport to brecon branch? Or at least Machen to bedwas?

Thank you so much for this Ben. I'm trying to get this to work for my Grandfather to drive but unfortunately the station buildings do not show up for me at all. I believe I have all of the requirements (after extensive searching), but can't find these last few things. It's amazing to see this and incredible the amount of work that's gone into it.

Hi Ben, I love your routes, unfortunately the link for this route has expired, any chance of re-uploading it again? Thankyou

Our fathers built all that,, thanks Ben

Another great simulation Ben

Excellent, very clever. Maesteg Castle Street as I remember it.👍

Masterful Ben. Now onwards to Tondu , scene of many childhood memories!

Environment rich modelling - superb 😊

Nice one Ben, thanks.

Magnificent.

Superb Ben !

Infrastructures destroyers all on Purpose

These vids should win awards for being the most precise an historical accounts from a bygone age!

This is beautiful.

Fantastic Route,But I Think Somethings Wrong? I Have All The Required Assets Yet Im Still Seeing Milk Bottles Everywhere?

As a former resident of Pontycymer, I would love to see this come to fruition, but think that the situation is being looked at through rose tinted glasses.

this looks like a fantastic route, great job 👍

Fantastic as usual Ben. I did notice one issue - at the east end of Cymmer Afan there is a bridge structure lying across the Abergwynfi tracks. You can close you're eyes and bravely drive through it though.... 🙂

Last year I cycled from Pontypridd to Margam via Glynccorrwg then on the old South Wales Mineral line to Cymmer followed by the R&SB line to Port Talbot. The gradients on these lines are brutal. I would love to have ridden behind the driver on a DMU. Brilliant simulation, but the 56xx was travelling too fast for the gradients. Well done!

Another cracking video Ben. Thank you so much for sharing this. Another line I would have liked to have traveled on - at least I can picture some of it, thanks to you & your excellent video :)

That's fantastic, how did you do that!!

Fantastic attention to detail on this, really impressive and thanks for sharing this. Had me double checking my work phone for email at 7:22, heard an outlook noise. No email all is good lol. 👍

Myself and fellow members of South Wales Classic Car Club, recently visited the remains of Cymer Afan Station for a coffee stop on a club run, and it was great to see what is left of the old Afan valley railways.

Abbsolutely brilliant, thank you.

Excellent video.Just a minor detail- a 56xx with such a train,even of empties would be running at less than half that speed up them grades !

Good effort Ben, Treherbert hasn't changed a great deal. Now to watch it again with a map.

Superb !

Excellent work! So useful to place where the railway was.

Another nice trip along a route I now regularly walk.

Ben just one word FAB

Wonderful, takes me back sixty years. I travelled over the line many times, steam and DMU. Well done Ben.

Respect for the historical research to build this, Ben. Soo many different lines in what must've been coal central. Fantastic to have an important piece of history replicated.

Cheers for this Ben, it's a great piece of work. Being a recently retired train driver and having cycled and walked these lines I'd like to give this a go on Train Sim. I'm quite a new user of TS so expect there are many assets I won't have or will struggle to get to get it to run.

Brilliant, passes the back of my house 🙂

Very nice to watch

Brilliant! Apart from the class 37.

Well done very accurate.

Wonderfull.

Same factory as near Porthcawl

No working signals

No turntable at that place off the junction as at the frames of 3mins on the film

On every trip from Pyle to Porthcawl, the engine had to be turned on Tondu Depot turntable to ensure equal wear on the coupled-wheelbase, such was the curvature of the bends..

Kia Ora, Amazing work, beautifully presented

I have told loads of people about these, your are a genius mr salter and these have given pleasure to so many. thankyou.

Tondu Halt or Tonteg Halt?

Absolutely fantastic thank you I hope that you could recreate Brecon to neath route as I used to live adjacent to the track near dainter place just up from ely place goods yard and footage of the railway there is rare once again thanks

Hi Ben. Sorry to reach put on TH-cam. But do you have any books or research material you'd recommend when it comes to the old stations of Neath? I'm particularly interested the locations and old photos. But I've found it difficult thus far. Kind regards, Alun.

I just wish I had travelled on the railways around Brecon. However, your work really mirrors reality and is quite remarkable. Would love to see some views starting from Moat Lane down the Mid Wales!!! Many thanks