The Penar branch line and the Hall's branch line, (also known as the Hall's Tramway and Hall's Road) was a standard gauge freight railway line running between Risca and the Oakdale Colliery in the South Wales coalfield.

Class 40 No. D200 (40122) runs round its train and passes a row of miners cottages at Oakdale Colliery in South Wales on 23rd May 1987 while hauling Pathfinders The Gwent Valley Explorer railtour from Crewe to various Welsh freight branches including …

The Hertfordshire Railtours "Valleybasher III" enthusiast charter is seen on the approach to the rapid loading bunker at Oakdale Colliery in the Sirhowy Valley of Gwent in South Wales.

Oakdale is a large village in Caerphilly county borough, Wales, 9½ miles north of Caerphilly itself, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. Situated in the Sirhowy valley , it is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Blackwood , with which it forms a conurbation .

Collieries of the Sirhowy Valley in South Wales. The Sirhowy Valley lies north of Risca and south of Tredegar in South Wales, along the River Sirhowy. Early history shows that the area was mainly farmland with a few iron ore workings and furnace …

Sep 6, 2020 · Below is a map pinpointing the location of former railway lines in Wales: Some of these closures were the result of the still controversial Beeching Axe of 1963, while other stations disappeared...

Oakdale Colliery was a coal mine located in the Sirhowy Valley, one of the valleys of South Wales. In the early years of the twentieth century the need for coal was growing both in America and Europe, and local business men in Wales were …

The Penar branch line and the Hall's branch line, (also known as the Hall's Tramway and Hall's Road) was a standard gauge freight railway line running between Risca and the Oakdale Colliery in the South Wales coalfield.

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Jul 2, 2021 · A Comprehensive History of the Railways of South Wales The opening two chapters present an introduction to the region and outlines the emergence of the canal and tramroad system. This was prior to the introduction of modern edge railways using rolling stock with flanged wheels in the 1840s-50s.