Up local from Treherbert entering Pontypridd
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Up local from Treherbert entering Pontypridd
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 6 Apr 1954
View from the north end of the station, where the ex-Taff Vale Railway line from Treherbert down the Rhondda Valley joins that from Merthyr down the Taff Valley; also round behind a loop joins the two and each line crosses a viaduct over the respective rivers here. It was a site of constant railway activity and the train is typical of the times, with Collett '5600' class No. 6648 (built 9/28, withdrawn 5/65) working bunker-first down to Cardiff.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.603784
Longitude
-3.348436