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6M77 - Nether Booth
Nearing journeys end DB’s 6M77 15:43 Cwmbargoed Opencast Colliery - Hope (Earles Sdgs) rattles along the Hope Valley near Nether Booth hauled by EWS liveried 66120 and a matching rake of motley looking HTA’s loaded with Welsh Coal for the cement production process at Breedon’s Hope Cement Works.
With the recent news that the opencast mine at Ffos-y-Fran near Merthyr Tydfil, which supplies Cwmbargoed is being forced to cease mining operations after 16 years due to growing pressures from local residents and carbon reduction policies, undoubtedly this flow will come to an end shortly with coal for Hope being imported to the UK instead.
Tuesday 25th April 2023.
6M77 - Nether Booth
Nearing journeys end DB’s 6M77 15:43 Cwmbargoed Opencast Colliery - Hope (Earles Sdgs) rattles along the Hope Valley near Nether Booth hauled by EWS liveried 66120 and a matching rake of motley looking HTA’s loaded with Welsh Coal for the cement production process at Breedon’s Hope Cement Works.
With the recent news that the opencast mine at Ffos-y-Fran near Merthyr Tydfil, which supplies Cwmbargoed is being forced to cease mining operations after 16 years due to growing pressures from local residents and carbon reduction policies, undoubtedly this flow will come to an end shortly with coal for Hope being imported to the UK instead.
Tuesday 25th April 2023.