Closed Stations Journey quiz

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Alsop en le Dale

 

[Calthrop]

Hartington

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Parsley Hay

 

[Calthrop]

Hurdlow

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Dowlow Halt

 

[Calthrop]

Hindlow

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Higher Buxton is the final closed station on this journey.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next move to Wales for the next journey.....

This is number 1652 in the series so far....

The journey starts at the closed station of Dowlais Cae Harris
It follows the line of the RR Taff Bargoed Line
It then follows the line of the Taff Vale Extension Railway...via Trelewis Platform
It then follows the line of the Rhymney Railway...via Pwll-y-Pant
It then follows the line of the Vale of Glamorgan Line..via Penarth loop line
It then follows the line of the South Wales Railway...via Pyle (1st station)
It then follows the line of the North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway...via Beag Fair Siding
The journey ends at the closed station of Letterston

The first closed station on this journey is Dowlais Cae Harris

 

[Calthrop]

Pendarren Colliery Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Cwm Bargoed

HINT .... There are five more closed stations on this line, four of which are colliery halts.

 

[DerekC]

Nantyffin Colliery Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bedlinog Colliery Halt

 

[Calthrop]

Nantyffin Colliery Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Nantyffin Colliery Halt

Prior to that was the actual village station of Bedlinog...but to continue....

Taff Merthyr Colliery Halt

From here, we will access two closed stations on the Taff Vale Extension Railway, in order then to access the main line of the Rhymney Railway.

 

[Calthrop]

Am rather "running blind" here (it's my ineptitude wherein the fault lies !) --

Trelewis Platform?

 

[Whistler40145]

Nelson and Llancaiaich

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Pwll-y-Pant

 

[Calthrop]

(Just quite lately back home) -- I confess to remaining baffled by all these earlier stages of this Journey... as emphasised before: my dim-ness, not any failings in exposition of the exercise -- I just can't seem to get head round the geography of these stretches of line; find that the maps confuse me more than enlighten. Just now, rather blindly following precedent, or trying to --

Cefn Onn Halt

 

[Ash Bridge]

And from someone that’s equally baffled….

Llandough Platform?

 

[Calthrop]

Fellow-member of Glamorganshire Railway Bewilderment Society reckons that looks kind-of OK, and accordingly bumbles on:

Penarth Dock

 

[Ash Bridge]

Alberta Place Halt

 

[Calthrop]

Lower Penarth

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lavernock

 

[Calthrop]

Swanbridge

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Sully

 

[DerekC]

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[DerekC]

Aberthaw High Level

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Gileston

 

[Whistler40145]

St Athan

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Llandow (Wick Road)