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St. Davids Crescent, NEWPORT, NP20 3AX

Gaer Vale is an area of houses and flats located between Cardiff Road and a single-track railway line. The railway fence can be seen on the right. Ahead are flats numbered 143-154. The path along the NW edge of Gaer Vale ends at the wall at the far end of the flats.

Vintage Trains' South Wales Explorer railtour featured diesel class 37 No. 37403 and class 20 No. 20189 locomotives in top-and-tail formation. The tour originated at Dorridge and visited Cardiff Central via reversal at Park Junction, an empty stock move to Pengam Sidings and then Cardiff to Cwmbargoed, returning to Ninian Park and then back to Dorridge. In this view, No. 37403 is in the lead on the approach to Park Junction near Newport.

UK Railtours brought a pair of class 66 locomotives, Nos. 66011 and 66116, in top-and-tail formation, to South Wales on their Valley Legend railtour. The tour visited the Ebbw Vale and Tower Colliery branches, and is seen here approaching Park Junction on the way to Ebbw Vale.

The tracks head away from Park Junction towards the main line at Ebbw Junction. 7-foot (about 2 metres) high solid walls on both sides of the Park Junction footbridge are not photographer-friendly, so this view doesn't show the track, beyond the left edge of the photo, which heads towards Gaer Tunnel.

The line to Newport diverges to the left, those for Cardiff go straight ahead, and a siding is between.

Ex-Western Region 4-6-0 No. 7029 Clun Castle approaches Park Junction, Newport on with Vintage Trains' Return to Steam railtour. The train is turning here and will proceed diesel-hauled to Cardiff before returning to Tyseley.

A Multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) pair - Nos. DR 98962 + DR 98912 - is seen at Park Junction on a weedspray working. The train worked from Margam to Margam via the branch to Machen, Newport and the Ebbw Vale branch. On returning from Newport, it stabled over the lunch break in the very rarely used Five Whistle Road siding, on which it is seen paused here. On the left, class 170 No. 170203 passes as it heads to Newport (via Gaer Junction) on an Ebbw Vale to Cardiff Central working; in the bottom-right corner, the line to Ebbw Junction is just visible.

St Davids Crescent is alongside the railway tracks heading away from Park Junction.

Heading away from Masefield Vale and Gaer Baptist church towards the Morton Way junction.

The two ends of Park Drive, about 300 metres apart, connect with Cardiff Road. This is the eastern end of the road, viewed from the corner of Cardiff Road. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1580228 to a view of the western side of Park Drive.