The Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway was a railway company that constructed a standard gauge line in South Wales, connecting Llantrisant and the...
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The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) was a standard gauge railway in South Wales, built by the Taff Vale Railway Company to serve the iron and coal industries...
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congestion and high charges at Cardiff Docks as well the monopoly held by the Taff Vale Railway in transporting coal from the Rhondda. In addition, the Taff Vale...
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the Taff Vale Railway were encouraging the promotion of what became the Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway (L&TVJR), a line to Llantrisant from...
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with the Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway. The Company was always impoverished and from 1876 leased its line to the Taff Vale Railway. The TVR...
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latterly on the Barry Railway under the Great Western Railway. The station on the Taff Vale/Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway was opened on 1 May...
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the main TVR route, it also acted as the junction station for the Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway branch line from its opening to passenger...
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a branch to Brofiskin Colliery in 1862, and another railway, the Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway, which opened in December 1863, intended...
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services to Llantrisant, Cardiff and Pontypridd. A station, Beddau Halt railway station on the Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway existed until...
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and Llandaff, and on the cusp of St. Fagans and the Vale of Glamorgan. To the north of the suburb lies the route of the former Llantrisant and Taff Vale...
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Church Village Halt railway station was a small halt on the Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway. The station was just south of the crossroads in...
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which trains ran regularly until 1984. Chapman, C (1996) The Llantrisant Branches of the Taff Vale Railway. The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-481-4 v t e...
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Beddau Halt railway station was a railway station at Beddau, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It consisted of a single platform and shelter reached by steps leading...
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Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways. Another station also called Beddau Halt existed on the Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway...
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Wales'". Pontypridd and Llantrisant Observer. 3 June 2010. Retrieved 15 November 2014. Hutton, John (2006). The Taff Vale Railway, vol. 1. Silver Link...
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The station was built by the Taff Vale Railway (TVR) and opened on 9 October 1840. It was known as Newbridge Junction until March 1866 when it was renamed...
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Llantwit Fardre was a station on the Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway. The station consisted of a single platform and station buildings. A small bridge...
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Cadw. "Taff Vale Railway Bridge at Abercynon (80763)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 13 October 2020. Cadw. "Taff Vale Railway Viaduct...
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Llantwit Fardre (section History and amenities)
Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway. Industrialisation began in Llantwit Fardre in the late 17th century with the introduction of stone quarrying and coal...
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Railway line passed over the former Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway's and later Taff Vale Railway's Waterhall branch to the north of the station...
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passenger train. This allowed an underhung spring to break away from the engine and foul the wheels of the leading van, derailing the entire train. The first...
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nearby; Barry Railway and the Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway. After 1930 the original Tonteg Halt was moved to Tonteg Junction after track rationalisation;...
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Railway applied for powers to make a junction with the Taff Vale Railway at Bute Street, Cardiff, hoping that the Taff Vale would install broad gauge, to avoid...
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never been a railway connection to the Vale of Glamorgan line. It had been served by the Llantrisant—Aberthaw Low level Taff Vale Railway line from 1892...
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A470 road (category Wikipedia articles needing a junction list from December 2021)
Tongwynlais and Castell Coch, Taff's Well, to Pontypridd. Heading north to Abercynon, the road now follows the route of the Taff Vale Railways Llancaiach...
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Pontypridd (section Railway)
Glamorganshire Canal, and later by the Taff Vale Railway, to the ports at Cardiff, Barry and Newport. Its role in coal transport lengthened its railway platform,...
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Tyn-y-Nant and Upper Church Village. Church village was served by Church Village railway station on the Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway until 1964...
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South Wales Metro (category Railway lines in Wales)
Tredegar to Ebbw Vale Newport: North via Ebbw Vale Line to Abertillery West via the former Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway to Treharris, via...
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and exchange sidings had to be built at Coity Junction. The mineral wealth of the Rhondda Valley proved immensely lucrative to the Taff Vale Railway,...
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Letterston Railway, which opened on 30 August 1906 between Clarbeston Junction (271 miles 8 chains (436.3 km) from Paddington) and Letterston Junction (281 miles...
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