A 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.
A 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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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.Previous | NextThe level crossing at Pontyates, looking towards Cwm Mawr on 19th September 2009.

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