Railway Cottages, Nantybwch
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Railway Cottages, Nantybwch
Image: © Robin Drayton Taken: 14 Mar 2013
Nantybwch station used to be opposite these cottages. This was on the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway; this section commonly referred to as the Heads of the Valleys Railway. The last passenger train ran on 5th January 1958. The station was also the end of the Sirhowy Valley line. The altitude here is 350 metres and in his book “Lost Railways of South Wales” Mike Hall says “Another bleak unforgiving place, its open-lattice footbridge with no added protection from the elements was not the place to linger on a cold day.” National Cycle Route 46 passes these cottages.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.788427
Longitude
-3.263609