The Rumney Railway in Wales was a 4 ft 2 in (1,270 mm) plateway built to connect the ironworks at Rhymney to the Monmouthshire Canal Company's tramroad...
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Finding its access to Merthyr difficult at first, it acquired the Rumney Railway, an old plateway, and this gave it access to Newport docks. This changed...
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Platform railway station served the village of Fleur-de-lis, in the historical county of Glamorganshire, Wales, from 1926 to 1962 on the Rumney Railway. The...
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List of track gauges (redirect from List of railway gauges)
of railway track gauges by size. A gauge is measured between the inner faces of the rails. For ridable miniature railways and minimum gauge railways, the...
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Abergavenny Canal. In 1825 the Rumney Railway was incorporated. It is usually referred to as the "Old Rumney Railway", and had no organisational connection...
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shared a third railway station on the former Rumney Railway, which on amalgamation with the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway was called Maesycwmmer...
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (category Chesapeake and Ohio Railway)
England. June 6, 2018. Retrieved March 23, 2022. "Bassaleg Viaduct, Rumney Railway, Bassaleg". Coflein. Retrieved March 24, 2022. Bowen, Ele (1855). Rambles...
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Viaduct is Wales's oldest operational railway bridge or viaduct and was built over the Ebbw River for the Rumney Railway in 1826. It is also the second oldest...
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Poor (Shropshire) etc. Act 1796 (36 Geo. 3. c. 38) Stratford and Moreton Railway Act 1821 (1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. lxiii) Unett Estates Act 1823 (4 Geo. 4. c....
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Big Vein. Most of this coal was transported by rail along the former Rumney Railway to the British Steel Corporation steel mill in Llanwern, while the residual...
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from Ealand to Leeds Act 1827 (7 & 8 Geo. 4. c. ?) Llanidloes and Newtown Railway (Canal Extension) Act 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. xxx) Dewsbury and Batley Gas...
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List of places in Cardiff (section Railway lines)
Plasnewydd Pontprennau & Old St. Mellons Radyr & Morganstown Rhiwbina Riverside Rumney Splott Trowbridge Whitchurch & Tongwynlais Adamsdown Butetown Caerau Canton...
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Pontllanfraith (redirect from Pontllanfraith railway station)
around the station gave it access to both the Rhymney Railway and the Rumney Railway. The railway closed to most freight traffic on 9 June 1958, and the...
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Machen railway station was an interchange junction in Caerphilly County Borough, South Wales. It was large and substantial compared with many other stations...
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great distance below the town of Newport, close to the termination of the Rumney and Sirhowey Railroads: passing on in a direction nearly full north and...
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Rhiwderin railway station served the Welsh village of Rhiwderin near Newport, Wales. The station had two platforms with a large stone building on one...
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Church Road railway station served the hamlet of Lower Machen in Newport, Wales. The station had two platforms. There was a substantial stone building...
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Pengam (Mon) railway station served the village of Pengam, historically in Monmouthshire, Wales, from 1865 to 1962 on the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction...
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Junction was a railway station which served the village of Bassaleg, Monmouthshire. The station was opened by the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company...
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Railway; the Brecon and Merthyr, the Old Rumney Railway, and the extension of the Oswestry and Newtown Railway to Aberystwyth and Towyn. His responsibility...
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Trethomas railway station served the village of Trethomas, Caerphilly, Wales, from 1915 to 1962 on the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway. The station...
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Abertysswg railway station was a station which served Abertysswg, in the Welsh county of Glamorgan. It was served by trains on the line from Pengam (Mon)...
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Bedwas railway station served the village of Bedwas, Monmouthshire, Wales, from 1865 to 1965 on the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway. The station...
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Maesycwmmer railway station was situated on the Bassaleg and Bargoed line, serving the adjoining village of Maesycwmmer, which lies on the east bank of...
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The Clarbeston Road and Letterston Railway was a small railway company formed to give the Great Western Railway a more direct route to the port at Fishguard...
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Halt railway station served the suburb of Cwmsyfiog, Monmouthshire, Wales, from 1937 to 1962 on the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway. The first...
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Bargoed railway station was a small railway station in the valleys north of Cardiff. Opened as Aber Bargoed by the Brecon & Merthyr Junction Railway, the...
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and Splott and Rumney to the west. Trowbridge largely dates from the second half of the 20th century, when housing spread east from Rumney onto the farmland...
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Sir John Rumney Nicholson, CMG (25 March 1866 – 22 November 1939) was a British engineer. Nicholson was born at Langwathby in 1866, the son of Isaac Nicholson...
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List of tramroads in South Wales (category Early Welsh railway companies)
the iron and coal-mining industries. The earliest tramroads were "edge-railways", where the wagons were guided by having flanged wheels running on plain...
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