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Cardiff Road, MOUNTAIN ASH, CF45 4EY

Viewed across the A4059 New Road.

The green board on the Jobcentre Plus http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3830529 can be seen centre right.

This OS cut mark can be found on the wall of the old Labour Exchange building. It marks a point 110.130m above mean sea level.

Mountain Ash Workingmens Hall and Institute, High Street, Mountain Ash.

The Mountain Ash Railway was a colliery railway, latterly NCB serving a number of locations in the Cynon Valley, and centred on Mountain Ash, The two locomotives are making their way to the locomotive shed for a mid-day break. They are (left) No.8 and (right) Sir John. No.8 had a varied history, starting life as a War Department 'Austerity' locomotive in 1944, having been built in 1944 by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns of Newcastle. It was sold to the Hunslet Engineering Co of Leeds in 1960 where it was rebuilt incorporating improvements to the designs of Argentinian steam engineer L D Porta. It was given their works number 3880 and sold to the NCB in 1961. After withdrawal it was sold into preservation and after several moves is currently (2020) at the Dean Forest Railway. 'Sir John' was built by Avonside Engineering of Bristol (no.1680) in 1914. It too has survived into preservation and is currently (2020) on long term loan to Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway at Big Pit, Blaenavon. The tall building behind Sir John is the Mountain Ash Workmen's Club, which still survives. The station platforms in the foreground are those of the closed Mountain Ash (Cardiff Road) station of the former Vale of Neath Railway.

The river flows away from a road bridge with colourful sides. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3830557 The large building on the left is the former Nazareth church. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3830507

The discoloration marks a well-trodden route along a bank of the Afon Cynon.

Opened in 1888 by the Aberdare Railway (later part of the Taff Vale Railway), on its line from Abercynon to Aberdare (Low Level), this station, which would have been in the foreground, closed in 1964. It was reopened in 1988 slightly to the south east of the original, seen in the distance. View south east towards Penrhiwceiber and Abercynon.

Viewed from the B4275. The twin tracks through the station merge into one track here. The line of trees and bushes on the left is at the edge of a river, the Afon Cynon.

The building in Cardiff Road is now in residential use.