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Blackwood (Mon.) Station (remains)
View southward, towards Nine Mile Point and Newport; ex-LNW Sirhowy Valley line (Nantybwch - Nine Mile Point - (Newport), closed to passengers 13/6/60 but only recently (8/2/65) to goods. What on earth has happened to the signalbox?!
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 5 Apr 1965
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Roundabout and Chartist Bridge
Situated at the western end of the Chartist Bridge.
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 3 Jul 2008
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Chartist Bridge / Pont y Siartwyr across the Sirhowy Valley at Blackwood
A pretty stunning and attractive newish (2005) bridge which commemorates the Chartist movement locally back in the winter of 1839. So doubly striking and significant.
The Chartist Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge some 230m long, supported 30m above the wooded valley floor by a 90m A-frame pylon. Difficulties with mining related subsidence during construction, and in its foreseeable lifetime, led the Cardiff-based Ove-Arup design team to allow the bridge 'to breathe' if settlement does occur. The road bridge and the Sirhowy Enterprise Way, of which it forms a key part, are owned and operated by Costain & Lang Construction in a JV, under a 30 year DBFO (Design, Build, Finance, Operate) agreement and now
links the east and west sides of the Sirhowy Valley, which previously necessitated a frustrating detour down, or up, a steep 1-in-4 hill road on the valley bottom, known locally as the Rhiw.
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell
Taken: 14 Oct 2012
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Sunnybank Road, Blackwood
Sunnybank Road climbs away from the edge of the Chartist Bridge roundabout, heading for Cefn Fforest.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 1 Mar 2010
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Roundabout at the west end of Chartist Bridge
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 25 May 2014
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Ordnance Survey Cut Mark
This OS cut mark can be found on the wall post at the junction of High Street and Sunnybank Road. It marks a point 176.888m above mean sea level.
Image: © Adrian Dust
Taken: 5 Feb 2021
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Chartist Bridge, Blackwood
Image: © John Lord
Taken: 23 Aug 2017
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Chartist Bridge, Blackwood
Image: © John Lord
Taken: 23 Aug 2017
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View near the Chartist Bridge
Taken from near to the western end of the Chartist Bridge and showing the A4048 northwards towards Tredegar.
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 3 Jul 2008
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Chartist Bridge, Blackwood
For details of this bridge see http://www.arup.com/bridges/project.cfm?pageid=8826
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 2 Nov 2007
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