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Raven Industrial Estate, AMMANFORD, SA18 1NS

This is a recreation of the old photo seen on the following page: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cwmgors/Garnant5.html http://web.archive.org/web/20111011222354/http://www.tytwp.plus.com/Waun/Garnant5.html The chimneys are gone and the pub name is no longer painted on the window glass but on a swinging sign together with lettering on the wall. An entrance porch is also a more recent addition.

View northward, across ex-GWR Pantyfynnon (to left) - (to right) Brynamman (West) branch, which closed to passengers 18/8/58, Garnant station having been about 200 yards to the left. The line was closed to freight officially in 1988 after closure Of Abernant Colliery, but in 1994 it was probably still in use by trains removing the vast stockpile of anthracite from Abernant. It was reopened in 2009 for bringing opencast coal from Tairgwaith and it seems that a passenger service may return under the auspices of the Swansea 9 Lines Movement. Behind is the Carmarthen Black Mountain range (Tair Carnisaf, 1,503 ft.).

The lamp post that is visible is on one of the more recently completed sections of the valley cycleway Image which is on the south bank of the river at this point.

A recently built cycle path along the first stretches of a dismantled railway branch that ran from the Amman Valley railway. Although labelled as a Sustrans route, it doesn't appear to have a route number. As a paved route, it's only a couple of hundred yards long and a logicial extension further east to Brynamman along the rail route is barred by a sign stating that there's no public right of way.

Llwybr seiclo yn mynd heibio i hen safle Palais de Danse sef neuadd a agorwyd yn 1923 er cynnal dawnsfeydd, cyngerddau a ffilmiau. Yn ystod y 1950au a'r 1960au roedd y lle yn boblogaidd iawn gyda phobl ifanc yr ardal fel neuadd ddawnsio. Cyn cau bu'r adeilad hefyd yn ffatri jins a gweithdy ceir. Fe'i dymchwelwyd yn 2011 ac mae safle bellach yn faes parcio a safle bicnig. A cycle track passing the site of the former Palais de Danse, a hall which opened in 1923 as a venue for dancing, concerts and for watching films. In its heyday during the 1950s and 60s the place was very popular with young people as a dance hall. Prior to its closure the building was also used as a jeans factory and as a car workshop. Demolished in 1911 the site is today a car park and a picnic site.

Christ Church.

Following the old railway line down Dyffryn Aman.

Looking upstream from a viewing platform in Parc Golwg yr Aman.

Two sections of the cycleway meet at Nant Gwinau road. Since this path is built from a dismantled railway there must presumably have been a level crossing here but the gates ensure that road traffic has priority now.

Behave yourself and stick to the rules!