Railways and Industry in the Western Valley. Aberbeeg to Brynmawr and Ebbw Vale - 2017.pdf

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FRONT COVER:

The Daily service of oil tankers from Llandarcy Oil Refinery, Swansea to

Ebbw Vale Steelworks stands on the Up Loop behind the Up Ebbw Vale Platform at

Aberbeeg behind Ebbw Jn.’s 7238 on 14th April 1962.

(W.G. Sumner)

BACK COVER (top):

Waunllwyd Colliery sidings in 1907 facing north with Waunllwyd North

Signal Box on the right. All the wagons are branded E V, this being one of the Ebbw Vale

Co.’s main collieries.

BACK COVER (bottom):

A Class 37 reverses out of the original yard serving the new

Tinplate & Galvanising Plant in 1987 before a direct access to and from the main line was

constructed.

(Allan Pym)