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Xenophon PCDGS

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Whistler40145 said:
Gwaunybara Junction
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I have a feeling that this is a named railway junction.....not a railway station.

Can you please re-check your researches on the above, as the Taff Vale Railway is not where we want to be. When we passed through the open station of Caerphilly, as per the journey preamble, we would next access the line of the Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Can you please re-check your researches on the above, as the Taff Vale Railway is not where we want to be. When we passed through the open station of Caerphilly, as per the journey preamble, we would next access the line of the Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway
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I’ll refrain from posting
 
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Now we access the final line on the journey that has five colliery halts upon it....

Taff Merthyr Colliery Halt

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HINT

A look at the Wikipedia article on the Rhymney Railway, section 23.5, gives the topography of the colliery halts and stations on the Taff Bargoed Joint Line.
 
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DerekC said:
Cwm Bargoed
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Being mindful of the "HINT" that I placed at the foot of my previous posting # 74301,
it appears that after Bedlinog, but before Cwm Bargoed, there were two further colliery halts, which in the direction of travel were:-
Bedlinog Colliery Halt
Nantyffyn Colliery Halt

Howsoever, to carry on from Cwm Bargoed, there is.....
Penydarren Colliery Halt

This now leaves only the final closed station on this journey to be named.
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
Being mindful of the "HINT" that I placed at the foot of my previous posting # 74301,
it appears that after Bedlinog, but before Cwm Bargoed, there were two further colliery halts, which in the direction of travel were:-
Bedlinog Colliery Halt
Nantyffyn Colliery Halt

Howsoever, to carry on from Cwm Bargoed, there is.....
Penydarren Colliery Halt

This now leaves only the final closed station on this journey to be named.
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I did do a very careful scan of all the maps I could find, with no sign of any further halts. I will have another look.

Anyway - Dowlais Cae Harris
 
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I can only reiterate what information that is shown on the Wikipedia article on the Rhymney Railway, where the topography in section 23.5 makes very specific reference to the Taff Bargoed Joint Line.

I did ask a Wikipedia editor why the actual line template that shows the line of the Taff Bargoed Joint Line and one of the five colliery halts plus the passenger stations was not fully completed, also noted on the Template Talk page, as another line that does, and the response given was "lack of someone able to utilise a smaller sized area in which to incorporate the missing four colliery halts".
 
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We next move to England for the next journey.....

This is number 772 in the series so far.....

The journey starts at the closed station of Bardon Hill
It follows the line of the Leicester and Swannington Railway
It then follows the line of the MR Melbourne Line
It then follows the line of the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Junction Railway...note 1st and 2nd stations
It then follows the line of the MR "Disley cut-off" Line
It then follows the line of the Stockport, Timperley and Altrincham Junction Railway
It then follows the line of the CLC Skelton Junction to Glazebrook East Junction Line...note two 2nd stations at the Manchester Ship Canal area
It then follows the line of the CLC Manchester to Liverpool Line...via the Widnes Central loop line
It then follows the line of the CLC North Liverpool Extension Line
It then follows the line of the Southport and Cheshire Lines Extension Railway
It then follows the line of the Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway
It then follows the line of the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway
It then follows the line of the Canada Dock Branch Line
It then follows the line of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway...note 1st and 2nd stations and using the Deansgate link line
It then follows the line of the LNWR and NSR Manchester to Stafford Line
It then follows the line of the NSR Potteries Loop Line
It then follows the line of the NSR Etruria to Stone Line
It then follows the line of the NSR Stone to Colwich Line
It then follows the line of the LNWR Trent Valley Line
It then follows the line of the LNWR Rugby to Leamington Spa (Avenue) Line...via Dunchurch
It then follows the line of the LNWR Leamington Spa to Coventry Line
It then follows the line of the LNWR Coventry to Nuneaton Line
It then follows the line of the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway
The journey ends at the closed station of Donisthorpe

The first closed station on this journey is Bardon Hill
 
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