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In the early Autumn of 2022, we had a two week holiday in West Wales and I took the opportunity to have a look at a number of old railways. I walked lengths of some and spent hours whiling away the time looking at old photos. This thread is the result and this is the first article which looks at transport prior to the railway age, with a significant focus on tramways/tramroads .....
A holiday in West Wales in the early Autumn of 2022 led to a little research on the railways in the area. Looking furthest West, we start with the industrial railways of Pembrokeshire. …. Bef…
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Elsewhere in the UK, a usual pattern of development was for river traffic to be supplemented by tramroads and canals which then, often when traffic warranted it, were replaced by railways. It did not exactly work out like that in Pembrokeshire. ... We start with a quick look at the history of industrial transport of the County before the railways. ...
A holiday in West Wales in the early Autumn of 2022 led to a little research on the railways in the area. This is the second article about Pembrokeshire’s Railways. The first focussed on the …
The next article relating to this thread has a thread of its own. It is the first of a number of articles about industrial railways around Pembrokeshire and focusses on the area of Milford Haven ...
This post is a short addendum to my post about the pre-railway age and the tramways of Pembrokeshire. In that post there was a section about the Porthgain to Abereiddi Tramway. In writing about tha…
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Much of this article is summarised from a book by R.C. Jermy - "The Railways of Porthgain and Abereiddi."
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