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Five Year’s Time

            Five years before the closure of Ebbw Vale works, the driver of 60015 ‘Bow Fell’ chats with a shunter prior to heading back down the valley with 6b83, the 0905 to Llanwern.

After the closure of Velindre in 1989 British Steel operated two tinplating works in South Wales, one at Trostre near Llanelli and this one at Ebbw Vale.    Both were fed with steel coil from the rolling mills at Llanwern or Port Talbot and both dispatched tinplate, with significant volumes moved by rail.

The lower yard here is completely full of traffic: in addition to the train of coil which 60015 had just delivered all sidings are occupied by loaded or empty coil carriers or vans for the dispatch of tinplate.

With the merger of British Steel with the Dutch steel maker Koninklijke Hoogovens to form Corus in 1999, rationalisation was likely and in 2001 closure of Ebbw Vale was announced.  Closure followed in July 2002, just over 5 years after this picture was taken.

In 2019 the tinplate works at Trostre survives and continues to receive and generate rail traffic.

Taken on: April 16, 1997

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