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GWR Absorbed Railways : Welsh Railway Companies

Discussion in 'Photography' started by neildimmer, Apr 9, 2017.

  1. neildimmer

    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    I have started adding new collections to the GWR section starting with the various absorbed railway companies. This collection features the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway
    The Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway (BP&GVR) was a mineral railway company that constructed a railway line in Carmarthenshire, Wales by conversion of a canal, to connect collieries and limestone pits to the sea at Kidwelly. It extended its network to include Burry Port, Trimsaran and a brickworks at Pwll, later extending to Sandy near Llanelli. For a time the company worked the separate Gwendraeth Valleys Railway. The BP&GVR was notable because of the very low height of some overbridges, a legacy of the canal conversion.
    It was completely dependent on the economy of the mineral industries it served and due to depression in them, it was for many years in administration. In the final years of the nineteenth century those industries developed considerably and the fortunes of the BP&GVR improved as well, paying 10% dividends for several years, before absorption by the Great Western Railway in 1922.
    For some time the line carried miners to their place of work, and their families to market, and from 1913 the Company carried the general public in passenger trains.
    After 1945 mineral extraction in the area declined steeply; passenger operation ceased in 1953, and in the 1960s most of the network closed progressively as pits closed. The final short section at Kidwelly closed in 1998

    2192 Ashburnham former BP&GVR No.1 Ashburnham built by Chapman and Furneaux 1900 withdrawn 1951 0-6-0ST
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    Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway - Railway-Photography
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    2193 Burry Port former BP&GVR No.3 Burry Port built by Chapman and Furneaux 1901 withdrawn 1952 0-6-0ST Llanelly shed 1951
    https://railway-photography.smugmug.com/GWRSteam-1/1923GWR-Absorbed-locos-/Burry-Port-and-Gwendraeth-Valley-Railway/i-gGfCFmv
    2196 Gwendraeth former BP&GVR No.6 built by Avonside Engine Co. 1906 withdrawn 1956 0-6-0ST Llanelly shed 1955
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    2198 former BP&GVR No.10 built by Hudswell Clarke 1910 withdrawn 1959 0-6-0T
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    Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway - Railway-Photography
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    2198 former BP&GVR No.10 built by Hudswell Clarke 1910 withdrawn 1959 0-6-0T
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    Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway - Railway-Photography
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    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    A few small collections of absorbed Railway companies from Wales into GWR ownership



    Alexandra Dock & Railway Co

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    Barry Railway
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    Barry Railway - Railway-Photography
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    Cambrian Railways
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    Cardiff Railways
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    Neil
     
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    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    A few small collections of photos of locos of absorbed Railway companies into GWR ownership



    Cleobury, Mortimer & Ditton Priors Light Railway



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    Midland & South Western Junction Railway
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    Midland & South Western Junction Railway - Railway-Photography
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    Rhymney Railway

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    Rhymney Railway - Railway-Photography
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    Rhymney Railway - Railway-Photography
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    Neil
     
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    A collection of photos of locos of the Taff Vale Railway absorbed Railway company into GWR ownership



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    Taff Vale Railway - Railway-Photography
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    Taff Vale Railway - Railway-Photography
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    67 NCB Caerphilly Works 29-10-1962 Ex Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T in NCB livery
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    Taff Vale Railway - Railway-Photography
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    54 NCB Philadelphia 9th June 1952 Ex Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2T No.64


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    Taff Vale Railway - Railway-Photography
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    Neil
     
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    neildimmer Resident of Nat Pres

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    I have added 2 new photos to the collection featuring the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway
    2193 ex Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway GWR 0-6-0ST built Chapman & Furneaux 1901


    https://railway-photography.smugmug.com/GWRSteam-1/1923GWR-Absorbed-locos-/Burry-Port-and-Gwendraeth-Valley-Railway/i-6hLD9K7
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    Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway - Railway-Photography
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    2194 ex Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway 0-6-0ST built by Avonside Engine Co 1903


    https://railway-photography.smugmug.com/GWRSteam-1/1923GWR-Absorbed-locos-/Burry-Port-and-Gwendraeth-Valley-Railway/i-mnFHtGJ
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    Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway - Railway-Photography
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    Neil
     
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