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Following on from a couple of articles about the Tanat Valley Light Railway written some years back, I was reading some older rather tatty magazines and found an article entitled “Rails up the Tanat Valley” in an issue of the Ian Allan publication ‘Railway World‘ – the June 1990 edition.
The featured image for the linked article is a photograph taken in August 1963 of an unidentified pannier tank crossing the A495 with a ballast train from Blodwell, heading for Llynclys Junction. One of the train crew is seeing the train across the crossing. An old gas lamp retains its red glass aspect to the road, GWR-style © Andrew Buckley.
In his article, Colin Ganley recounted the rise and decline of the minor lines running west from Oswestry, the last remnant of which by 1990 had been ‘mothballed’.
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The earlier articles can be found on this forum, failing that these are the relevant links:
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The featured image for the linked article is a photograph taken in August 1963 of an unidentified pannier tank crossing the A495 with a ballast train from Blodwell, heading for Llynclys Junction. One of the train crew is seeing the train across the crossing. An old gas lamp retains its red glass aspect to the road, GWR-style © Andrew Buckley.
In his article, Colin Ganley recounted the rise and decline of the minor lines running west from Oswestry, the last remnant of which by 1990 had been ‘mothballed’.
Rails up the Tanat Valley
Following on from a couple of articles about the Tanat Valley Light Railway written some years back, I was reading some older rather tatty magazines and found an article entitled “Rails up th…
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The earlier articles can be found on this forum, failing that these are the relevant links:
The Tanat Valley Light Railway and the Nantmawr Branch – Part 1
Llangynog Railway Station in 1930. The Tanat Valley Light Railway (TVLR) was a 15-mile (24 km) long standard gauge light railway. It ran westwards from Llanyblodwel in Shropshire, about 5 miles (8 …
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The Tanat Valley Light Railway and the Nantmawr Branch – Part 2
These two plans show the route of the Tanat Valley Light Railway and its place within the local railway network. [1]This plan shows the different parts of the Oswestry and Llangynog Railway. Its en…
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