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W.H.Ferguson (Fruit Importers)
Depot - 1940's
This was situated
where 'Tesco' is now. |
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Freshly Painted W. H. Ferguson Vulcan Lorry - HB 3897
(Photograph Courtesy of Stephen Webb) |
W. H. Ferguson AEC Truck - 1960's |
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G.W.R. Goods Depot in
the 1920s.
(Photograph by Mrs
Lilian Snow, Upper Thomas Street, courtesy of Anita Farrell) |
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Merthyr Tydfil Railway Staff
circa 1945.
Second Row Extreme Right Richard
Thomas Clive Thomas' Grandfather.
(Photograph
courtesy of Clive Thomas) |
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Last of the
Van Horses Leave - 3rd October 1953..
(From the Merthyr Express) |
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Railway Staff - Date Unknown
(Photograph
Courtesy of Gareth Evans) |
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Merthyr Tydfil Railway Workers
Bottom Right is Mr. Christopher
Heggie.
(Photograph
Courtesy of Gareth Evans) |
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Merthyr Engine
Sheds The
site is now occupied by Trevithick Gardens. |
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GWR-517 Class 0 - 4 - 2 No. 1435 |
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GWR 5600 Class 0-6-2T at Merthyr
Shed 88D - 1961. |
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The S.L.S. Special
58926 on the turntable.
(Photograph courtesy of Geoff Matsell) |
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S.L.S. Special 58926
at the sheds
(Photograph courtesy of Terry Jones) |
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Merthyr Tydfil Railway Station
in the early 1900's taken
from the old Angel Hotel. |
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Rhymney
Railway train at Cyfarthfa Junction.
Heading towards Abercanaid, Aberfan and Quakers Yard High Level on the Joint
Taff Vale/Rhymney Railway.
(Terry McCarthy
has been emailing for some time to say the caption on this Postcard is wrong, Thank's Terry.) |
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Merthyr Railway Station |
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Merthyr Tydfil Railway Station
(Photograph
Courtesy of the Michael Morant Collection) |
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On the 30th of October
1966 the Queen visited Aberfan, following the Disaster. The Royal
train hauled by D1054 Western Governer dropped the Queen at Merthyr
Vale Station
and then ran up to
Merthyr Station for the engine to run around the train ready to
return to pick up the Queen.
(Photographs courtesy of Keith Lewis-Jones
FBCS CITP) |
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A mural by students of
Merthyr's history unveiled by Lord Ted Rowlands M.P.
Police officers present Sgt.
Maldwyn Davies, Sgt. Jack Jones and Inspector Angus Gwynne.
Can anyone recognise the
students?
(Photograph
courtesy of Gwyneth Gwynne) |
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Naming Ceremony for Diesel
Locomotive 56037 - RICHARD TREVITHICK
Named by Richard Trevithick's
Great, Great, Great Granddaughter. 3250hp diesel-electric engine locomotive
built at Doncaster Works in 1977 and was based
at the Canton Depot in Cardiff in
the 1980's. Used on heavy loads of coal, iron ore and containers. In
December 2011, it was sold to EMR Scrapyard (Coopers Metals)
for scrapping.
(Photographs
Courtesy of Paul Webb. Extra Information Courtesy of Ken Lavender) |
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Merthyr Tydfil Station in the
early 1980s.
Click to
enlarge the photographs.
(Photographs
Courtesy of Andrew Purchase & Alan Gunter) |
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Mural by Pen-Y-Dre High School
Pupils Charting the 1500 Years of Merthyr.
(Photograph Courtesy of Andrew Purchase & Alan Gunter) |
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Several Photographs of the
'old' Merthyr Tydfil Railway Station
(Photographs
Courtesy of Selwyn Thomas) |
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Nicholas Sullivan Sends Us These Photographs Taken in
the Late 1980's - Early 1990's |
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Class 37 No.
37893 in Railfreight Petroleum livery at Merthyr Tydfil Station
on then The Monmouthshire Railway Society's Railtour 'Taff
Vale Triumph' 22nd June 1991
(Photographs courtesy of Nicholas Sullivan) |
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1977 |
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Demolishing the last the remaining part of Merthyr Railway Station,
3rd May 1996. |
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