Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway

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MT&AR to Beaufort MT&AR to Abergavenny To Nantyglo Brynmawr Waen Avon Slope Siding Waen Nantyglo Colliery New Clydach Colliery Waenavon Milfraen Colliery Garn-yr-Erw Halt Whistle Inn Halt Furnace Sidings Down Exchange Sidings Up Exchange Sidings Big Pit Halt Tyre Mill Sidings Blaenavon High Level Varteg Hill Collieries (Viponds) Varteg Garndiffaith Garndiffaith Viaduct To Golynos Colliery Abersychan and Talywain GWR to Pontypool Crane Street

The Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway was a railway line in South Wales, within the historic boundaries of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, originally built in 1866 and immediately leased to the London and North Western Railway to transport coal to the Midlands via the Heads of the Valleys line. The line was completed in the late eighteen sixties and the LNWR were operating passenger trains over the line by 1872. Eight years later it was extended to meet the Great Western Railway at Abersychan & Talywain. Here the line carried on down the valley through Pontypool Crane Street railway station to the coast at Newport. In 1922 the LNWR was grouped into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. In later years the line saw a variety of GWR locomotives operating from pit to port; however, the railway retained its LNWR infrastructure up until the last days before its closure.