The remains of the station at Pontyates (looking towards Burry Port) on the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway photographed on 19th September 2009. Passenger traffic ceased in 1953, but the line remained open for coal traffic until the local collieries closed in 1996.
The remains of the station at Pontyates (looking towards Burry Port) on the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway photographed on 19th September 2009. Passenger traffic ceased in 1953, but the line remained open for coal traffic until the local collieries closed in 1996.
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Rhiwderin Station, also on the Brecon & Merthyr line, closed to passengers as long ago as 1st March 1954. Now in use as a private residence, it was photographed on 23rd June 2007.Previous | NextA second view of Pontyates looking towards Burry Port on 19th September 2009. As a consequence of low bridges along the route, in its later years the line famously employed class 03 and subsequently 08 locomotives with cut-down cabs.

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