Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway South Wales Industrial Steam Gala

To celebrate the opening of their Big Pit branch line, which runs from Furnace Sidings to the car park of the museum, a length of about 1/2 a mile, the railway had a gala. Both resident engines were in action along with three visitors that had all worked commercially in South Wales.
1945 Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn Austerity 0-6-0ST No.7169 Mech Navvies Ltd No.71515
1950 Bagnall 0-4-0ST No.19 HM Dockyard Devonport
1932 Peckett 0-6-0ST No.1859 Sir Gomer from the Battlefield Line
Peckett 0-4-0ST No.1163 Whitehead from Midland Railway -- Butterley
Peckett 0-6-0ST No.2150 Mardy Monster from Elsecar Heritage Railway