Eastbound goods entering Aberdare High Level on the Vale of Neath line
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Eastbound goods entering Aberdare High Level on the Vale of Neath line
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 14 Sep 1946
The train is coming up from the direction of Hirwaun and Neath, headed by one of the 274 engines acquired in 1922 by the GWR from the Taff Vale Railway, renumbered and 'Swindonized': TVR 'A' class 0-6-2T No. 314 (built 8/1908 as No. 111, withdrawn 12/49). The combination of two Home signals on one post is somewhat unusual: the one facing protected the crossing to the Dare Valley Branch, which went off to the left. The High Level station, but not the line from Hirwaun, was closed on 13/6/64 but restored and reopened 3/10/88 as the terminus of a revived passenger service from Cardiff via Abercynon. This runs over the former Taff Vale branch by a connection with the Vale of Neath line, short of Aberdare Low Level station which had been closed on 30/10/64.
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Image Location
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51.715222
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-3.444247