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    The Merthyr line is a suburban rail line in South Wales; it connects Cardiff Central with Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare. The line is part of the Cardiff...
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  • stretch of the line are usually every 10 minutes. After calling at Abercynon, the line splits into two branches; one to Merthyr Tydfil via Merthyr Vale and...
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  • The Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway (B&MR) was a railway company in Wales. It was originally intended to link the towns in its name. Finding...
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    Merthyr Tydfil (Welsh: Merthyr Tudful) is the main town in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales, administered by Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council...
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    Rhondda line, also known as the Treherbert line, is a commuter railway line in South Wales from Cardiff to Treherbert. The line follows the Merthyr line as...
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  • company, that built a line from Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare to Neath, in Wales, mostly to transport the products of the Merthyr iron industries to ports...
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  • Merthyr Tydfil/Aberdare – incorporating the City and Merthyr/Aberdare Lines (trains from Aberdare to Cardiff now travel after Radyr via the City Line...
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    Merthyr Tydfil railway station serves the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. It is the northern terminus of the Merthyr branch of the Merthyr Line. Passenger...
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  • Cardiff City Line Coryton Line Ebbw Valley Railway Maesteg Line Merthyr Line Rhondda Line Rhymney Line South Wales Main Line Vale of Glamorgan Line Cardiff...
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  • lines with the GWR were built: the Taff Bargoed line (1876) and the Quakers Yard and Merthyr Joint line (1882). Although the Rhymney Railway network was...
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    Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is located at the junction of the Merthyr line and the Rhondda line and has for many years been the only station serving the town...
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    Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is the terminus of the Aberdare branch of the Merthyr Line, 22½ miles (36 km) north-north-west of Cardiff Central. Passenger services...
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    adjacent to the Taff Trail. The station is on the Merthyr Line, and is also the northern terminus of the City Line. Radyr was originally a major railway junction...
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    Mountain Ash in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. The village is served by Fernhill railway station on the Merthyr Line - Aberdare branch. Fernhill residents v t e...
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    route via Merthyr Tydfil, Rhymney, Tredegar to Ebbw Vale Newport: North via Ebbw Vale Line to Abertillery West via the former Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction...
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  • Thumbnail for Quakers Yard railway station
    in the community of Treharris, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. It is located on the Merthyr Tydfil branch of the Merthyr Line. Passenger services are provided...
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  • Merthyr Tydfil was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorgan. From 1832 to 1868 it returned one Member of Parliament...
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    coal mining village in the Taff Valley 4 mi (6 km) south of the town of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. On 21 October 1966, in the Aberfan disaster, a colliery...
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  • Thumbnail for Merthyr Tramroad
    The Merthyr Tramroad (sometimes referred to as the Penydarren Tramroad due to its use by Trevithick's locomotive, built at the ironworks) was a 9+3⁄4-mile-long...
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    Pontypridd via Cathays and Radyr, of which 2 tph terminates 2 tph continue to Merthyr Tydfil 2 tph continue to Treherbert 6 tph to Caerphilly, of which 2 tph...
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    workers and visitors of Treforest Industrial Estate. It is located on the Merthyr Line, 8.7 miles (14 km) north-west of Cardiff Central. Passenger services...
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    village of Abercynon in the Cynon Valley, Wales. It is located on the Merthyr Line, 15.5 miles (25 km) north of Cardiff Central. Passenger services are...
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    Main Line Newport to Chepstow line Newport to Abergavenny Line Swanline Valley Lines Butetown Line City Line Vale of Glamorgan Line Merthyr line Aberdare...
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    came into being as part of the Merthyr- Pontsticill junction line. This additional line extended the Brecon and Merthyr Railway and was only agreed following...
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    The Merthyr Rising, also referred to as the Merthyr Riots, of 1831 was the violent climax to many years of simmering unrest among the large working class...
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    The Rhymney line is a commuter rail line running from Cardiff Central through the Rhymney valley via Heath and Llanishen in the north of the city, to Caerphilly...
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    Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is located on the Aberdare branch of the Merthyr Line. Passenger services are provided by Transport for Wales. The first station...
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    Taff Vale Railway Company to serve the iron and coal industries around Merthyr Tydfil and to connect them with docks in Cardiff. It was opened in stages...
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  • Thumbnail for Merthyr Tydfil bus station
    Merthyr Tydfil bus station is the bus station that serves the town of Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. There are 14 stands and the main operator at the station...
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    KeolisAmey Wales that the line would be re-integrated into Valley Lines services, with 6 trains per hour to operate from Merthyr Tydfil, Aberdare and Treherbert...
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