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New Cut Road, SWANSEA, SA1 2EB

A view from platform 1 across platform 2 looking towards distant wooded high ground. A First Great Western power unit is at the end of a train at platform 2.

This OS cut mark can be found on the railway wall to the NW of Morfa Road. It marks a point 9.354m above mean sea level.

When these First Great Western trains arrived at Swansea, this was the back of each train. Because Swansea is a dead-end station http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4383591 this will be the front of each train when they leave. In 2015, with power units and a cab at each end, this is straightforward. In the steam era, and when a diesel locomotive was used, a replacement locomotive from Landore depot had to be attached to this end of a train for the onward journey.

This 1998 view shows the main Swansea railway station platform viaduct to the rear and the box girder viaduct that used to link the Vale of Neath, GWR and LNWR routes together. Originally, this joint viaduct would have run towards Swansea Victoria (LNWR) station serving various wharves along the now filled in North Dock area. Although the viaducts and tiling date back to the 1920s, New Cut Road as a through road did not exist until the 1960s. The road formerly known as Upper Strand would have terminated at the box girder bridge as the Swansea Canal intersected this view from left to right just beyond the lamp post until the 1950s. Beyond the viaducts and in the distance, the original Upper Strand veered to the right to connect with the Hafod Bridge triangle. Due to the roadworks on the 1960s, New Cut Road does not have a road connection with the current Upper Strand. Elephant Street and Bargeman's Row were accessed from the original Upper Strand, until New Cut Road cut these off totally. Remains of these former slum streets can still be seen. Car hire company Godfrey Davies occupied one of the industrial units between the two railway viaducts in the distance until the 1980s.

The 60 metre wide viaduct http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3739000 carries the South Wales main railway lines over New Cut Road immediately NE of Swansea railway station.

A November 2013 view of the site on the corner of Morfa Road and New Cut Road.

A class '800' train, unit No.808.

Still in the livery of First Great Western, the Great Western Railway train awaits departure for London Paddington on October 20th 2018. First Great Western renamed itself Great Western Railway in 2015. It will be some time before all the First Great Western fleet is rebranded or replaced.

The 60 metre wide viaduct carries the South Wales main railway lines over New Cut Road immediately NE of Swansea railway station.