Cardiff to Coryton branch line in the 1960s and 1980s - archive photos

[editor]

These are cracking images of a line I used to regularly travel on:

Railway archive photos – the Cardiff to Coryton branch line in the 1960s and 1980s

 

[existentialist]

These are cracking images of a line I used to regularly travel on:

Railway archive photos – the Cardiff to Coryton branch line in the 1960s and 1980s

I look at those tangled webs of lines up through the Valleys, and can't really begin to imagine just how comprehensive the rail networks back then were - looking at where the line went on after Coryton, it's into a spaghetti tangle of lines all over the place. It probably HAD to be rationalised, but it was pretty impressive...

 

[editor]

I look at those tangled webs of lines up through the Valleys, and can't really begin to imagine just how comprehensive the rail networks back then were - looking at where the line went on after Coryton, it's into a spaghetti tangle of lines all over the place. It probably HAD to be rationalised, but it was pretty impressive...

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There used to be tiny little mining villages with three different stations in some parts of the valleys!

 

[Judelo]

Remember when I first saw an old UK rail map (or maybe it was just a GWR map), lines coloured red - the whole valleys area was basically a big red patch until you looked at the zoomed-in inset for the area..

Pretty much all built for coal (presumably)..

 

[existentialist]

Remember when I first saw an old UK rail map (or maybe it was just a GWR map), lines coloured red - the whole valleys area was basically a big red patch until you looked at the zoomed-in inset for the area..

Pretty much all built for coal (presumably)..

Adlestrop is fairly bonkers like that...



http://www.systemed.net/carto/New_Adlestrop_Railway_Atlas.pdf

 

[Judelo]

There used to be tiny little mining villages with three different stations in some parts of the valleys!

Though probably not many actual passenger trains stopping at most of them..