Neath to Brecon & Newport Steam South Wales
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- A look at neath to Brecon followed by a trip down to Newport
Featuring
Neath Riverside
Cadoxston Jct
Gilfrew
Crynant
Seven Sisters
Colbren Jct
Craig-y-nos (Penwyllt)
Cray
Brecon Free Street
Talyllyn Junction
Torpantau
Pontsticill Jct
Newport
Priceless video. Excruciating prounciation of some of the place names.
Yes, but has a good attempt at Tal-y-llyn strangely.
I used to see these trains pass through Bedwas until 1962. Panniers, 2 coaches, we took them for granted. Then they stopped. This film is quite priceless therefore.
I remember the steam in Pontardawe. I used to wave to the driver and passengers from the bottom of our garden in Alltwen. Lovely memories.
Despite me being on TH-cam for quite a long time, gems such as this often don't appear in my home page until several years have passed since they were uploaded. However, now that I have had a chance to view it, I was very pleased to see it covered the N & B line between Coelbren Junction and Craig-yr-nos.
For those who were not aware, this was the location for the filming of the Boer attack on the train in the movie "Young Winston". With 1466 stabled overnight at the old platform at Coelbren, after the quarry train cleared the line, we went up the line each day to Penwyllt for the filming. The official driver and fireman were both BR staff, but I did a firing stint on the final trip up.
The open countryside in your video was just as I remembered, but I had never travelled to Brecon by train. The loss of the lines to Brecon is a shame. The Scenery is beautiful, far better than on the Settle and Carlisle line.
How are you Merv. I agree with every word, boy.
Very short sighted to close all these railways, what an asset they would be now, much better than traveling by road and great for tourism with the stunning scenery.
How I remember working that line, as a fireman from the Neath & Brecon engine shed, 60 years ago. Also as passenger on the last train to Brecon 13th Oct 1962
I was just over a year old and of course I don't remember but my mother held me up to watch that last train pass through our fields as it approached Brecon. My father purchased nearly a mile of that line between Brecon and Cradoc which contains three bridges. What a crime that the line was closed. Brecon is the only town for miles around without a train service.
My grandfather worked on the Neath - Brecon line , Frederick Treharne. Did you know him?
@@michaelhoskins3901 The name wrings a bell with me but I cannot place a face, that's the trouble being 87 years old. I was there 1952
My late dad Mal butler was a fireman on the line at this time was based at Merthyr shed
@@andrewbutler6477 wow I wonder if they knew each other somehow
Good example of closure by stealth. By 1962, there was 1 train each way, in the afternoon; with an extra morning round trip on Saturdays only.
I remember going on the last one, we were given little brown badges, which I kept for a number of years, but alas no more. The decisions made by Beacham and the Government at the time were so short sighted. What a tourist attraction that little railway could be today. So sad.
His name was Beeching, and this closure was nothing to do with him.
Adelina Patty was the name of the opera singer. Ystradgynlais is pronounced 'us-trad-gun-lice'
It didn't help that the trains left from Riverside station, so quite a problem to change if you arrived at Neath General. When on a gricing trip to South Wales in 1963, most people I met had no idea what useful train services still ran at the time.
How’d it get to Newport from Talybont on Usk? I thought that line went to Merthyr
Its true that there were deliberate policies in place to make sure these railways did not pay. However, there was a mixture of the public who increasingly didnt travel by train or were discouraged. The car was king and there was a terrible lack of foresight by the politicians
There were deliberate policies to make sure many railways did not pay in order to make sure they could be closed. However, the public did turn against the railways and patronage could be extremely low. One wonders if these lines had survived how well they would probably be doing in the 2020,s
Sad that the idiot Dr Beeching closed a lot of our valley lines including this one. A friend of mine traveled on the last train from Neath to Brecon. This was a daft mistake made as if an attempt was made to turn this railway into a preserved line then it could have been easily converted back to a mainline railway latter on to cope with congestion on our roads.
@Eirug Sion Griffiths Brecon's railway station closed years before The Beeching Axe.
B&M video and DVD
Can somebody tell me who was Jane Collins born 1650 • Ystradgynlais, Breconshire, Wales & died ABT 1720 • Fairfield Estate, St James, Jamaica?
Does anyone know the exact location at 2:34?
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.9490127,-3.3910751,3a,75y,111.83h,86.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFyKtfrGcXwel5fwHSySEjQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Now called Market street in Brecon
thanks alot i`ve got it now,is there any other footage of trains entering Brecon from Neath? And or is the footage clips from a longer film or is this the actual length?
or footage of trains travelling towards neath from brecon and including brecon? ie over the viaducts and on towards cradoc onwards
I was a train guard on this line working class 9 trains from 1971 to 1981 east dock to onllyn Hopi spell it right
The guy doing the commentary is a chump
Yes, where's Toropanto, sounds Spanish😂 and Adriana Patti?🙄
@@catherinewilliams3850 That's trouble with the English, don't recognise the local Welsh Language, but recognise Spanish.
Great Film but his commentary/ pronunciation is awful.