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On a most miserable Winter's day, I cheer myself up knowing Spring is just around the corner. These daffodils were growing in Bute Park alongside the River Taff, smack bang in the centre of Cardiff
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The Taff Bargoed Valley is a river valley near Pontypridd in South Wales, and lies off the Abercynon roundabout on the A470 road, and is approximately 14 miles from Cardiff. The main settlements are Nelson, Edwardsville, Quakers Yard, Treharris, Trelewis, and Bedlinog. The valley is situated where the three County Boroughs of Caerphilly, Rhondda Cynon Taff, and Merthyr Tydfil meet.
The Taff Bargoed Valley is a river valley near Pontypridd in South Wales, and lies off the Abercynon roundabout on the A470 road, and is approximately 14 miles from Cardiff. The main settlements are Nelson, Edwardsville, Quakers Yard, Treharris, Trelewis, and Bedlinog. The valley is situated where the three County Boroughs of Caerphilly, Rhondda Cynon Taff, and Merthyr Tydfil meet.
66086 approaches the site of the old Bedlinog signal box as it heads down the Taff Bargoed valley with 6C83 11:30
Cwmbargoed Opencast Colliery to Margam Terminal Complex
Sunbeams break through the canopy of trees on the Taff trail in Cardiff. Seen in Explore, highest position 22 on January 10 2016.
Former Taff Vale Railway no. 85, built by Neilson, Reid & Co. in 1899, climbs Oakworth Bank on the 14th January 2017 with the five coach 13.15 Keighley to Oxenhope service.
The Taff Bargoed Valley is a river valley near Pontypridd in South Wales, and lies off the Abercynon roundabout on the A470 road, and is approximately 14 miles from Cardiff. The main settlements are Nelson, Edwardsville, Quakers Yard, Treharris, Trelewis, and Bedlinog. The valley is situated where the three County Boroughs of Caerphilly, Rhondda Cynon Taff, and Merthyr Tydfil meet.
Sunrise over the River Taff in Cardiff, with the spire of Llandaff Cathedral reflected in the water.
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Both Class 37's got a run out today with the welcome return of the second Rhymney diagram. Here 37418 crosses the River Taff before heading into the platform to work 2R24 17:46 Cardiff Central to Rhymney.
37697 is approaching Ocean & Taff Merthyr Junction with a set of 14 empty MDV's from Taff Merthyr colliery to Nelson East Sidings.
As well as the train, the background illustrates valley life just before the coal industry was torpedoed. An ex-GWR ventilated van body serves as a blue painted shed, further up the track a Reliant van is tucked into the hill side, the gardens slope down and catch the sun, a number of greenhouses are in use probably growing fruit, flowers or a vine. The washing is drying on this mild and sunny Saturday.
37697 was built as D6943 at English Electric, it entered service new to Cardiff Canton 17/09/1964. Under TOPS it became 37243, in 1986 it was rebuilt as a 37/5 and numbered 37697. The loco was withdrawn 01/04/1999 and cut at C. F. Booth (Rotherham) in March 2006.
Copyright Geoff Dowling 28/04/1990; all rights reserved
Displaying For Sale posters in the lower deck windows, Taff Ely 7 (UTG 312G), a Willowbrook Bodied AEC Regent V, is seen here on a visit to the Oxford Bus Museum at Long Hanborough.
66076 heads along the banks of the River Taff as it approaches Radyr near Cardiff, working the 6C45 Tower Colliery to Aberthaw loaded coal train.
Seen in Explore.
Gull flying through the reflected sun off the River Taff in Cardiff. I was above the bird on the Millennium Stadium Boardwalk when I took this. I did no processing of the image other than a crop and a touch of noise reduction.
A view taken in April 1990 across what is now part of the Taff Bargoed Community Park. BR Railfreight 37699 winds its way along the single track leading to Taff Merthyr Colliery with loaded MDV wagons from Nelson East Sidings [Nelson Bog]. Deep Navigation Colliery and roof tops of Treharris community complete the background.
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The sun behind one of the piers of the Millennium Stadium reflected in the River Taff. This photo uses the HDR technique.
A walk from Taffs Well to Pontypridd using the trackbeds of old railways, on 26 November 2020. Modern railings protect a sudden drop to a small rivulet.
This line, whose trackbed is now part of the Taff Trail, was the Pontypridd, Caerphilly & Newport Railway (PC&N) that (nominally) linked the towns of its title from 1884 to 1965. In practice the railway only owned the five miles from Pontypridd to Penrhos Junction and another two miles between Caerphilly and Machen, for the rest using running powers over the lines of other companies.
Of further relevance is that it was in reality controlled by the Alexandra Dock & Railway Company (ADR), who wanted to be able to tap into the coalfields of the Taff Valley and divert Cardiff bound coal to their own docks in Newport. This was a quite reasonable aspiration as at that time it was commonplace for ships to have to stand for days off Cardiff waiting access to the docks there, whilst coal stood for days waiting to be loaded.
A passenger service was started on 28 December 1887 and the three or four trains ran non-stop between Pontypridd and Caerphilly until a number of stopping places were opened in April 1904, most of these being closed between 1930 and the end of all passenger services in 1956.
Until 1903 all trains had been worked by the Taff Vale Railway, but in that year they gave notice to end this and the ADR took over, using locomotives that had recently been displaced by electrification of the Mersey Railway, quite a change of environment.