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Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Pont-y-pwl a Blaenafon), outside the town of Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Thursday 9th April 2015.

Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Pont-y-pwl a Blaenafon), The Whistle Inn Halt, off Whistle Road, near the village of Garn-yr-ew, Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Thursday 9th April 2015.

About this photograph. / Am y ffotograffau.

Those photographs are of old damaged railway carriages and wagons parked in some kind of a yard just on the south-east part of the railway station. I have no idea what they do with them, I’m guessing it’s some kind of temporary storage space, and those old vehicles are awaiting repairs and restoration. Some of them looked like they have been rotten away or could have been damaged in fire.

The reason I took those photographs was because I needed some kind of background images for a graphic design project I was doing. I prefer to try to use my own photographs rather than stock images when I do a design. For this project, I needed photos of old coal mines, and there is a heritage industrial museum nearby, called Big Pit National Coal Museum (Welsh: Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru).

The old coal mine nearby was the main reason I went to this area, and took as many photos as I can. After that, I noticed the old railway station and yard, so decided to see what’s available that may be worth taking photos of for my design. The viewpoint was from a footpath leading from the Big Pit to Blaenafon station.

It is very hard for me to work out what those old trains and carriages and stuff were, as I’m not really a train buff. Chances are some experienced railway enthusiast would know something about them. I just find them useful asset to save for any future graphic design projects.

About this subject. / Am y pwnc.

The Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway is a three and half mile long heritage railway, ran by volunteers as part of a tourist attraction. It goes from the Blaenavon High Level station to the Whistle Inn Halt station at the north end of the line.

The railway was originally built in the 1860s to transport coal from the nearby Big Pit coal mine, to the Midlands in England. By around the 1870s, the railway included passenger services too.

But around between the 1930s to 1950s, declining use of coal, and the nearby mines having exhausted their own coal supplies, resulted in most of the services being closed, until Big Pit finally closed in 1980.

In 1983, it was opened as a visitor attraction and heritage railway and ran limited train services during the weekends between spring and September.

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Taken in: UK / Wales / Blaenavon (show map)

Taken on: April 9, 2015

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