Lovely- my family had the chemist shop in Crumlin. H.H.Sheppard & Son-I used to get lifted up to see the train getting filled up with water. I shook hands with Gregory Peck when Arabesque was filmed there in 1966. Poignant memories ! Thank you 😊
Thank you for posting that. That takes me back. I grew up in Pontypool (I live in the US now). I remember those trains going by our house when I was a lad. The whole area has changed so much.
Navigation colliery is closed already 3:05 tracks already torn up. I did not know that was so early as before the line over the top closed. Great film, I just subscribed.
So much that was once so great has now been forever lost, and certainly not in the name of progress.... truly heart breaking to think that the UK had such a comprehensive railway system and we lost it to the bureaucrats cooking the books about their inefficiency...... this line alone was supposedly so inefficient and so unnecessary and so unwanted that a dual carriageway has now been built over it...... and at huge cost to the public…… Truly a heart breaking video seeing what was built to last for hundreds of years now all gone forever well before its time.
I am sure my Grandfather crossed this a good few times he started on the as cleaner too, for the Rhymey ( i think) might of been the Taff Vale but later the GWR. He climbed the ranks and became a driver. He did passenger services to Aberdare among other services,but suspect King coal is what he shifted mostly. I do'nt remember him telling me what loco classes he drove to but ,I know there were a few tender engines among all the different classes of tank engines favoured for coal haulage down from the valleys. During WW2 he had his train shot up more than once by enemy aircraft,which shook him up and may have s contributed to his early retirement from the the job and his ordination as a baptist minister in his home town of Senghenydd He was born in 1898 , left school in 1913 to join his father' piece work gang in the Universal collery .2weeks into the job he told me there was a roof fall, he finnished his shift that day and never went underground again, instead getting an engine cleaners job the very next day!. his father was bitterly dissapointed ,as before the days of employed men ,his father expected him to take over the gang. Two weeks later the Univeral Collery disaster took place and of the 400+ men and boys killed my great grandfather and the gang all died, ( there is a memorial and a roll call to all who lost their lives on the old site). I am of course in debted to my grandfather for joining that loco shed as I should not exist. As many others raising families in that tough par of Wales he insured his 3 boys took education seriously did'nt go below ground. incidentally Simeon my great grand father was 56yrs old when he lost his life and had come from the noth Somerset coalfield by to Senghenydd with a gang of pit sinkers,to the new steam coal seam opened up by Lewis Merthyr.
Great! This was the railway as I loved it and the world as I loved it. It had meaning. Sport, culture and politics had meaning. Now it's just wall-to-wall money and hatred. How did we get here?
What was the line that passed under Crumlin Viaduct please? A very important record to show future generations what damage political stupidity can do to the national infrastructure.
Lovely- my family had the chemist shop in Crumlin. H.H.Sheppard & Son-I used to get lifted up to see the train getting filled up with water.
I shook hands with Gregory Peck when Arabesque was filmed there in 1966. Poignant memories ! Thank you 😊
I worked Pontypool Station South Signal box , Coed-y-gric and Llantarnam junction boxes many many years ago . Boy the tales I could tell !!!
Thank you for posting that. That takes me back. I grew up in Pontypool (I live in the US now). I remember those trains going by our house when I was a lad. The whole area has changed so much.
Reminds me of my childhood....went to school in Pontypool. All this has gone now!
Navigation colliery is closed already 3:05 tracks already torn up. I did not know that was so early as before the line over the top closed.
Great film, I just subscribed.
Just old enough to remember it still standing. Can remember the filming of Arabesque being filmed, and it finally being demolished. 😥😥😥
Pontypool road- now Pontypool and New Inn-a shadow of its former self.
Gorgeous, many thanks for posting!!
My great great-uncle worked at Pontypool Road shed as a cleaner in the 1920s / 1930s
So much that was once so great has now been forever lost, and certainly not in the name of progress.... truly heart breaking to think that the UK had such a comprehensive railway system and we lost it to the bureaucrats cooking the books about their inefficiency...... this line alone was supposedly so inefficient and so unnecessary and so unwanted that a dual carriageway has now been built over it...... and at huge cost to the public…… Truly a heart breaking video seeing what was built to last for hundreds of years now all gone forever well before its time.
I am sure my Grandfather crossed this a good few times he started on the as cleaner too, for the Rhymey ( i think) might of been the Taff Vale but later the GWR. He climbed the ranks and became a driver. He did passenger services to Aberdare among other services,but suspect King coal is what he shifted mostly. I do'nt remember him telling me what loco classes he drove to but ,I know there were a few tender engines among all the different classes of tank engines favoured for coal haulage down from the valleys.
During WW2 he had his train shot up more than once by enemy aircraft,which shook him up and may have s contributed to his early retirement from the the job and his ordination as a baptist minister in his home town of Senghenydd
He was born in 1898 , left school in 1913 to join his father' piece work gang in the Universal collery .2weeks into the job he told me there was a roof fall, he finnished his shift that day and never went underground again, instead getting an engine cleaners job the very next day!. his father was bitterly dissapointed ,as before the days of employed men ,his father expected him to take over the gang.
Two weeks later the Univeral Collery disaster took place and of the 400+ men and boys killed my great grandfather and the gang all died, ( there is a memorial and a roll call to all who lost their lives on the old site). I am of course in debted to my grandfather for joining that loco shed as I should not exist. As many others raising families in that tough par of Wales he insured his 3 boys took education seriously did'nt go below ground. incidentally Simeon my great grand father was 56yrs old when he lost his life and had come from the noth Somerset coalfield by to Senghenydd with a gang of pit sinkers,to the new steam coal seam opened up by Lewis Merthyr.
Wow, really awesome.
Great! This was the railway as I loved it and the world as I loved it. It had meaning. Sport, culture and politics had meaning. Now it's just wall-to-wall money and hatred. How did we get here?
I wish those steam locos were back on the main line, its so sad too see them go although I did see one a couple days ago but it was pulling cargo :/
My father was a signalman on this stretch in the 1930s.
Derek Meacham that’s fascinating
great stuff, very sad though
Crumlin where pot noodle factory use to be
What was the line that passed under Crumlin Viaduct please?
A very important record to show future generations what damage political stupidity can do to the national infrastructure.
Crumlin , low level, railway. Ebbw Vale to Newport .
@@mrgarrytoo all change at Aberbeeg for Six Bells, Abertillery, and on up to Brynmawr and heads of the Valley.
Could you please tell me the name of the music and who plays it.
A Shamaluev Music
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