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Tramcar No2 at Pontmorlais Circus May 1939

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Tramcar No 12 at Pontmorlais.

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Tramcar No 12 at Pontmorlais.

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Tramcar No 13,  High Street.

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Tramcar  Terminus- Graham Street, 1938 (Note Burton Shop)

 
Tramcar No. 11 at Graham Street

Tramcar No13 at Graham Street.

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Tramcar at Brecon Road.

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Replacing the Posts on the Brecon Road

 

Tramcar Outside Cyfarthfa Park - 1930's

(Photograph Courtesy of the John Owen Collection)

 
Tramcar at Cyfarthfa Park gates.

 
Tramcar approaching Cefn Bridge.

 

The new extension to Cefn Coed opens with an official ceremony 

at Cefn Bridge on the 17th September 1912.

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Cefn Taxi operator "Bob The North" in his Rolls Royce, waits whilst passengers board a Tramcar

on Cefn Bridge. 

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Tramcar No9 at the terminus of Cefn Coed branch line at the Morning Sun.

(Photograph courtesy of Bill "Engine" Jones)

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Tramcar at the Cefn Coed Terminus Outside the Morning Sun

(Photograph Courtesy of John Langan)

This Tramcar was used in a First World War recruiting campaign.

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From the Merthyr Express.

 

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The Last Tramcar - 1939 - at Dowlais, Bush Hotel.

Left: Conductor Walter Davies

Right: Driver Mr John Buckley

(Photograph courtesy of Mervyn Davies)

  From the Merthyr Express.  

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The Last Tramcar - 1939 - At Graham street.

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The Last Tramcar - 1939

(Photograph Courtesy of Stephen Gwynne)

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This Postcard of a Model Merthyr to Dowlais Tramcar was produced by J. Arthur Dixon Ltd

(Postcard courtesy of David Jones).

   

Text on the rear of the

postcard.

 
 

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