Xenophon PCDGS
Veteran Member
Beaufort
With respect: my reading is -- after Rhymney Bridge: a spur leading to the right, off the LNWR east - west route, and into the Brecon & Merthyr Dowlais Top station. A B & M line continues north-westwards from Dowlais Top, not heading for Torpantau, but running in a wide loop north-east and north of Merthyr, and ultimately giving access to Merthyr (Plymouth Street). My version, thus: next station after Dowlais Top; and point where aforesaid loop, diverges: is
Pant (B & M -- as opposed to modern Brecon Mountain Railway's Pant station)
Can I ask how Pontsarn Halt would fit on a line eventually leading to the final station of Merthyr (Plymouth Street).
The first closed station on this journey is Bolton Great Moor Street
I think it would be very helpful to ask the editors of the Wikipedia Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny page to review and correct the topology of their map. From the research I have done there are a number of things to fix viz:
The same area also needs looking at on the Brecon & Merthyr page, although I can't quite see what the problem is.
- The Dowlais Top and Dowlais High Street titles should be transposed
- Pantysgallog Halt Low Level is between Dowlais High Street and Pontsarn Halt
- Dowlais Central was a terminus, not a through station as shown
- The connections into the B&M and MT&A north of Dowlais Central are incorrectly shown
- There wasn't ever a chord between the B&M/LNWR Joint line to Merthyr High Street and the TVR line into Merthyr Plymouth Street
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